No arrests in 10-year-old murder of Chinese language teacher

No arrests in 10-year-old murder of teacher

A man is fighting for justice for his mother 10 years after her death. Crime Watch reporter Meredith Aldis has the details.

AUSTIN, Texas - A man is fighting for justice after his mother was killed 10 years ago. The killer hasn’t been arrested yet.

"I will never have the chance to share my life with her," said Yuchong "Jacky" Chen, Grace Chen’s son.

Jacky Chen’s mother, Xiaojia Chen, also known as Grace, was killed 10 years ago. It was February 2014 and Jacky had just spent a week with his mother in San Francisco.

"I just couldn't believe that just two days after the last time I saw her in the airport that I wouldn't be able to see her again," Chen said.

On Feb. 19, 2014, Chen received a phone call from his friend that his mother wasn’t okay. Grace Chen was found dead in the middle of the day on the second floor of a shopping complex.

She was found in a private bathroom, accessible only to people who had a key, and the door was locked at the time. She was near the Chinese language school she had opened in Northwest Austin.

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"She's really passionate about sharing what she knows about the Chinese arts and language and the culture with people who are not from the Chinese community," Asian American Cultural Center-Austin founder Amy Wong Mok said.

Grace Chen was prominent in Austin’s Asian American community and was adored by her students.

"People remember her generosity," Mok said.

Community members wondered how this could happen to her.

"It was such a shock to everybody," Mok said.

"There's no way for us to bring her back right. The only thing we can do is find out what happened," Chen said.