The park in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood where a grandmother was critically injured in a brutal beating will now bear her name.
The park in San Francisco 's Visitacion Valley neighborhood where a grandmother was critically injured in a brutal beating will now bear her name.Family and friends will gather Saturday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially usher in the newly named Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park.
'Huang, then 88, was on her usual morning walk in the city's Visitacion Valley neighborhood on Jan. 8, 2019 when she was attacked. She suffered a broken skull, arms and neck. Her home was burglarized minutes afterward.Huang went on to receive long-term care at a hospital but died in January 2020 at age 89. While her assault preceded the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic, it nevertheless rattled the city's Asian community.
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