Hyun Jung Grant, 51, was an elementary school teacher in Korea before coming to the US, according to her son. Grant was identified by the Fulton County medical examiner’s office as one of the victims killed in the Atlanta shootings on Tuesday.
Randy Park, who identified himself as one of Grant’s two sons in a Daily Beast interview and on a GoFundMe page, said that his mother was killed at Gold Spa. Park said that Grant was his mother’s married name, and said on GoFundMe that her maiden name was Kim.
Park told the Daily Beast that he and his mother were “very close”.
“I could tell her anything. If I had girl problems or whatever. She wasn’t just my mother. She was my friend,” he reportedly said.
Park also said that his mother loved “dancing and partying” and that “She would always try to convince me to go out. She loved going to clubs. She loved Tiesto. She was like a teenager.”
“This is something that should never happen to anyone. She was a single mother who dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I,” Park wrote on his GoFundMe. “It is only my brother and I in the United States. The rest of my family is in South Korea and are unable to come.”
Park described Grant as “one of my best friends and the strongest influence on who we are today. Losing her has put a new lens on my eyes on the amount of hate that exists in our world. As much as I want to grieve and process the reality that she is gone, I have a younger brother to take care of and matters to resolve as a result of this tragedy.”
Park said Grant came to the US for “regular immigrant reasons” and “worked her a-- off” here, the Daily Beast said.
