For almost 50 years, Donnie Chin would don his khaki uniform and offer whatever he had — his food, his protection, his money or his time — to people in the Chinatown International District.
When he was just a junior-high-schooler, Chin started tuning into a police radio in an effort to help his beloved neighborhood. He beat ambulances and police cruisers to those in need — more than once performing CPR until formal help arrived.
Early Thursday, the 59-year-old man was shot and killed in the neighborhood he spent his life protecting. No arrests have been made, and Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said the department will “work tirelessly to bring his killer to justice.