Philadelphia’s Asian community has been on edge over the past few weeks after two recent attacks one that left a Chinese American takeout owner dead, and the other in which a high school student was randomly punched while out walking with his grandmother.In May, Wei Lin, 28, the takeout owner, went to help a delivery driver who didn’t speak English after the driver got into a minor car .
Family, friends and community members mourned a young father of two killed in a road rage attack as he helped his employee during a minor fender bender that.
Wei Lin, a 28-year-old restaurant worker, suffered fatal injuries from a punch he suffered after offering translation assistance in the aftermath of a fender bender in Northeast Philadelphia, police said. Jose Figueroa, 30, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and related offenses in the May 24 incident.
At the end of last month, a 28-year-old restaurant employee was fatally injured in an attack in northeast Philadelphia, and his family is mourning his death.