TOMMY KWOK CHIN

Officer Rank: Detention Officer
Memorial Panel: 41-E: 21
Department: Immigration & Customs Enforcement
End of Watch: October 17, 1999
Cause: PHYS
Age: 40
Years of Service: 11
Description: Agent Chin died after contracting a flesh eating disease from the illegal aliens he had custody of. He died from several infections contracted while on an isolated island off the coast of Washington State with 151 Chinese refugees. The death certificate identifies the disease as beta-hemolytic streptococcus, group A, (flesh eating bacteria).
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