everybody's so shocked emotions are running high as staff at haa isaka in yel toown our heartbroken to hear the news of wato kakiuchi a former senior Chef was the victim of Wednesday's homicide in Chinatown co-workers describe kakiuchi who is a Japanese citizen as having a strong passion for life and cooking a kind person who didn't deserve to die we really really sad that we can can't eat any more food he makes it he's really really good Chef kakuchi was stabbed to death on the corner of Union and Main Street at around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday The Vancouver Police say they have increase Patrols in the area we have all hands on deck this is the priority investigation for us and we're doing everything that we can uh to investigate and that means collecting evidence analyzing evidence and priting a sense of comfort and safety to uh community that is rightly concerned about what has happened watu was uh just a a ray of sunshine fun positive person uh just easygoing great musician great friend and just an even better person Justin alt the owner of haa isaka says he wants all workers in the service industry to be extra vigilant when working late hours quite often after the shift is done you're you're going out somewhere because when we finish at midnight or 2 a.m. uh that's other people's 4 5:00 in the afternoon right you know keep your head up don't be looking at your phone the VPD says they don't have a suspect and have yet to determine a motive in the case and is asking for the Public's help in Vancouver Angela Bower City news