Gospel Prism

I want to continue to provide updates concering Brian, his upcoming funeral, and the circumstances surrounding his death. Since this is an ongoing police investigation, and I want to do everything I can to aid that investigation, ovbiously I won’t divulge anything that compromises that. First though, I’d like to share with you a couple of pictures. One is of me and Brian at the Men’s Retreat not that long ago. It’s one of the very few pictures I have seen of him recently where he is smiling, somewhat. The second picture shows Brian’s baby picture and his son Jaden.

Here is a letter that I received from my cousin, Brian’s brother Royce. It’s being circulated around the Internet. He makes some corrections from my post on the circumstances of Brian’s death:

To all my brothers and sisters,

My name is Royce Chin and over the weekend my brother, Brian Chin was senselessly stabbed to death over the weekend. With the illness of my father, it was hard to watch my mother care for a man that was like Superman to me my whole life until the past two years. I witnessed painfully as she took did everything to take care of him the last two years. My father beat death twice in his life, but an oversight by a careless doctor proved to be too much, and we painfully buried our loving dad two months ago.

During this whole time, my brother did all he could, never complaining about the responsibilities thrown his way. He encouraged me to start my life, and that he would take care of everything back at home and watch my mother that cried everyday in pain from the loss of the husband she loved unconditionally. Because of his selfless sacrifice, I was able to get married and start my life in San Diego this past year.

On 7/05/06, Brian had a baby boy. Brian, my mother and sister came down to southern California to see his brand new baby one week after. He had promised to take care of some church kids during the weekend and he was not able to come right away. This past Friday night, he went out with some friends to Koreatown in L.A. to celebrate the birth of his son Jayden.

Upon shortly sitting down at a café called Blink in the early morning hours of 7/15/06, there was a confrontation that ensued behind where Brian was sitting. After trying to warn the people to stop slamming into them, a friend sitting next to Brian decided to stand up and diffuse the two guys. Brian stood up and pulled the friend away after an exchange, where they proceeded to exit.

Once outside, they were confronted with a guy perpetrating as if he had a gun. Brian and two friends wrestled away the weapon, which ended up being a crowbar. Shortly after, they proceeded to walk to their cars two blocks away where they were followed into a parking lot. The 5 or so that were following turned into 9-15 guys where they cowardly maced two friends that were with Brian. As Brian was defending off the group of guys after him, everyone of the cowards put their focused on him. As if being outnumbered was not enough, they brutally stabbed him in the back and front over and over again 16+ times. All I see when I close my eyes now is my brother being stabbed over and over again, and what his last thoughts may have been. Probably of his newborn son, and the family he would leave behind.

There is a void in my heart and the sadness and pain I feel is indescribable. Brian was truly a fearless person, always there for me and his friends. I’ve know him his whole life of 27 years, and there was never a moment where I felt things could not be accomplished with him by my side. These punks robbed me of my brother, and robbed his friends of a truly unique person. I ask for prayers, information possibly leading to the capture of these cowards, and donations, so I can give my brother a just and proper funeral.

You can contact me at Royce.Chin@yahoo.com . I thank everyone for their support.

And then here is an email I received from a good friend of Brian’s from his childhood:

Im not sure if this is the place to share my memory on Brian Chin. But I had the fortune to spend my teenage and high school days with Brian Chin. He was one of my best friends growing up. He was as loyal as they come. I grew up playing football and basketball alongside with Brian. It never was competition between us. He was like a brother to me whether it was with sports, life, and even financially. Just to show what kind of person Brian was. It was our award ceremony for basketball in 6th grade. Brian was HANDS DOWN the best player and team leader of our basketball team. For some very weird reason the coach had presented me with the award, but Brian was the very first person to pat me in the back and told me “i deserved it” and i know he was really sincere about it. Till this day I know Brian deserved that award but he was honestly the most unselfish person I have ever met. I really miss him a lot ! I will never forget Brian. RIP my friend

If you’re interested in contributing to Brian Chin’s funeral, a paypal account has been set up that directly links to the Brian Chin Memorial Fund. The email address to this paypal account is royce.chin at yahoo . com.