Chinese-Americans plan funeral for Georgia spa shooting victim with no kin in US
- Daoyou Feng was one of eight people – six of them women of Asian decent – killed in a gunman’s rampage on March 16
- With no family able to come to Georgia to arrange her funeral, local community leaders organised a service for the 44-year-old last Sunday
She died with no known family in America.
She was a Chinese citizen and had been working in the spa for only a short time before the shooting.
With no family able to come to Georgia to arrange her funeral, local Chinese-American community leaders organised a service for Feng on March 28 in Norcross, according to Lee’s Funeral Home.
Efforts to organise the funeral were started by a local Chinese-American organisation, whose name wasn’t immediately available.
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It’s a show of solidarity and kindness with the victim whose name has come up least often in media coverage, seemingly in large part because she did not have known relatives in the US who can speak on her behalf and tell who she was.