Aileen Chen

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Aileen Chen
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Age: 16

Location:
62nd Street and 21st Avenue
Brooklyn , NY 11204
United States
from: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/tragic_teen_struck_and_killed_was_Rpvovlg08w2XvZsMA3YcNI

Aileen Chen was out for a ride when she was struck and killed by the driver of a BMW.  There's a lot of facts still unknown about the crash. 

Respecting the wishes of the family, we did not install a ghost bike here.

Aileen was a student of Stuyvesant High School, which posted the following memory:

It is with deep sadness that we must share the news that Aileen Chen,
a brilliant Stuyvesant sophomore, was riding her bicycle near her home
in Brooklyn this past Saturday evening, when she was struck and killed
by a motorist. She was sixteen years old.

Aileen
loved physics and playing the violin, and dreamed of becoming a doctor.
Her teachers describe her as "charming, buoyant and scholarly," but
such words cannot begin to capture her uniqueness, spark and potential,
nor can they convey the loss that her death represents.

Our hearts go out to Aileen's family, and to the friends, classmates and teachers who cared for her and who will miss seeing her in class and in the halls.

exerpted from the NY Post

Aileen Chen, 16, was only out for a quick spin before dinner when a 26 year-old BMW driver rammed into her at 62nd Street and 21st Avenue around 6 p.m. yesterday, police said.

The shaken, 26-year-old driver remained at the scene and will not face criminal charges.

Chen routinely rode with friends, but was riding alone that night.
When she didn’t return her panicked family called police, they said.

"She always comes back or she would call if she wasn’t coming back until later," said her cousin Dila Szeto, 25.

Yesterday her grieving family said they doubted that the smart student disobeyed a traffic signal.

"She was so young, so talented, so smart. We just don’t know how this could have happened," Szeto said.

In many ways Chen was an atypical teen. She loved physics and wanted to become a doctor.

She
also expertly played violin in the school orchestra since junior high
school, and graduated in the top one-percent, her cousin said.

At Stuyvesant the sophomore continued to perform in the top tier of her class. She recently joined the school’s piano club too.

She
just landed her first part-time job at a hospital, Szeto said, so that
she could pay for a ticket when her favorite Asian rock band played
stateside. Even though they hadn’t announced a tour schedule, the teen
implored her strict parents to let her attend.

"Oh mom, please don’t stop me this time," Chen said.

Chen
was born in Vancouver and moved to New York in the fourth grade. Her
parents hail from Hong Kong – and her dad who just recently opened a
restaurant in Puerto Rico took a rush flight home when he received the
terrible news, Szeto said.

The family went to see Chen’s battered body late last night.

"They
couldn’t recognize her face at all. It was totally swollen. Her clothes
were all bloody and thrown away," Szeto said. "The only thing we have
left of her is her iPod and her watch."

Tomorrow,
Stuyvesant Principal Stanley Teitel will convene with guidance
counselors to plan on helping students deal with the loss. "My
condolensces go out to her family," he said.

Chen's favorite physics teacher John Avallone mourned the loss of a top notch student.

"I
cannot describe what a loss this is for the Stuyvesant community, and I
can't bear to think about what her family is going through." he said.
"Aileen was a joy to teach, with a special enthusiasm and such good
nature."