A 25-year-old girl, Carmen Cai Yi Lee, the daughter of Malaysian immigrants, was shots and killed in a small city outside of Atlanta, Georgia, while she was driving home from a friend’s BBQ.
She was just one week away from her birthday.
A police officer noticed her car pulled over on the road on 29 May, at around 9.30pm, and checked the vehicle, finding Lee unresponsive in the driver’s seat.
They then rendered aid to the girl and discovered a gunshot wound on her.
She was then pronounced dead at the scene.
The Georgia police are appealing for information that might help them in their investigation of her death.
Lee’s parents emigrated to the US from Malaysia before she was born, and her boyfriend described Lee, the oldest of 3 children, as the “most gentle soul” and “selfless”.
Lee’s brother said that “all she wanted to do (was) ease the pain of her parents” by dedicating herself to have a successful life.
A GoFundMe page was also set up by her younger brother to raise money for her parents to cover her funeral costs.
It has since raised over US$60k.
Images source: Lee Family via Fox5 and GoFundMe