China News Service, April 18th, according to a comprehensive report by Chinese-language media in the United States, a few days ago, a violent incident occurred in the Bridgeport area of ​​Chicago, United States. A 61-year-old Chinese man, Mr. Lei, was suspected of being violently beaten and unconscious during the carjacking process. He has not woken up yet. .

The American Chinese website reported that caring people announced on the 17th that they would offer a reward of $5,000 to anyone who provides valid clues, so that the police can arrest the suspect as soon as possible.

　　In addition, according to the US "World Journal" report, according to the victim's family, after Mr. Lei was robbed, the hospital was unable to notify the family because the robber drove away the vehicle and took the wallet with the ID card, and the Lei family once reported the missing person.

　　The son, who rushed back to Chicago from Seattle after his father's accident, said that he had heard his mother mention the frequent occurrence of crimes in Chicago, including carjackings. "For a while, I thought she was too worried, but this time it happened in Father," he said, adding that the case was very frustrating, "we hope that the culprit can be caught as soon as possible."

　　Mr. Lei, who has worked as the head chef at Qidong Restaurant, a famous suburban Chinese restaurant for 30 years, is known as "Master Lei" by many Chinese people. According to his family, he immigrated to Chicago from Guangdong in the 1980s. He has just retired and is preparing to launch a collaboration with friends. Mr. Lei, who has a new career, "worked in a restaurant all his life and worked hard to support his family".

　　Mr. Lei drove away from the apartment in Nanhuan District where another son lived at around 11 o'clock on the evening of the 6th. On the evening of the 7th, since Mr. Lei did not appear at the party with friends and could not contact him, the family began to look for Mr. Lei everywhere. , After calling the police at 1:00 a.m. on the 8th, the two sons also posted a tracing notice on social media at the same time, and called major hospitals to ask if any unknown Asian male was hospitalized.

　　According to the report of the Chicago Ninth Police Department, the cleaning staff found Mr. Ray lying on the ground on the streets near 25th Street and Princeton Street in Chinatown in the early morning of the 7th. At that time, his head and face were covered in blood. The victim was sent to the nearby Stronger Hospital in Cook County for treatment. Due to the severe head injury, the hospital immediately performed brain surgery on him. However, because the hospital could not confirm the identity, there was no channel to notify the family.

　　One of Mr. Lei's sons said that it was a coincidence that he had a college classmate who worked at Stronger Hospital. After reading the missing person notice, the classmate called and told him that an unidentified patient in the hospital might be Mr. Lei." After the family went to confirm, it really is the father who has been missing for many days.” However, although Mr. Lei, who was seriously injured, had undergone two brain operations, he was still not awake by the evening of the 14th. Injury," and even sober, Mr. Ray could never return to his normal life before.

　　The two sons of the Lei family launched a fundraiser, hoping to raise the high medical expenses for their father.

(Qiu Honghui and Huang Huiling)