NYC Chinatown murder victim gets proper burial thanks to activist’s help

What dignity he lacked throughout his life on the road has been given again to a murdered homeless man in his ultimate resting place.

The tombstone for 83-year-old Chuen Kok, one among 4 victims slain during a grisly Chinatown rampage in October 2019, was positioned on his New Jersey grave final month because of a fund-raising effort by an area activist.

“I believed [sic] prepare for a pleasant ship off,” stated Karlin Chan. “No person desires to put in an unmarked grave.”

Randy Santos is accused of attacking Kok and the opposite males with a metallic bar whereas they slept. He first set upon 4 males on East Broadway, killing three and injuring the fourth. He put down the weapon and walked north to 2 Bowery the place he discovered Kok, authorities allege.

Prosecutors stated Santos went again for the metallic bar, then returned to Kok and clubbed him to dying.

Chan stated he had seen Kok round for years however they’d by no means spoken. He had no household and Chan feared he would lay unclaimed within the morgue.

He organized for the Celestial Love Basis, which helps households with funeral bills, to pay for the interment in Princeton Memorial Park in Robbinsville, N.J. He purchased Kok a swimsuit and tie to be buried in.

The inspiration wouldn’t cowl the price of the gravestone, so Chan arrange a GoFundMe marketing campaign that introduced in $4,392.

The stone merely provides Kok’s identify, native land in Hong Kong and the dates he was born and died.

Two of the opposite murder victims have been claimed by household and the stays of the third, a Mexican national, have been returned to kinfolk again dwelling.

Chan just lately visited Kok’s grave to see the tombstone, go away flowers and pay his ultimate respects.

“Mission completed,” he tweeted.