King County Metro bus driver Shawn Yim is being honored with a procession and memorial Friday morning. Yim was a King County Metro bus driver who was killed following an altercation with a passenger on December 18,

Memorial services for Shawn Yim will be held on Friday. Yim, a King County Metro bus driver, was stabbed to death while on the job on December 18.

Richard Sitzlack was charged on Dec. 23 with killing Yim. According to court documents, Yim and Sitzlack began arguing about a window on the bus on Dec. 18 before Yim asked Sitzlack to exit the bus. Surveillance video reportedly showed Sitzlack pepper spraying Yim in the face before exiting the bus.

King County Metro, community members and transit agencies will gather Jan. 10 to remember Shawn Yim, a bus driver tragically killed in December while on duty.

King County Metro has said to expect bus cancellations on Friday, January 10, as the community gathers to honor driver Shawn Yim.

The 10 a.m. procession will be followed by a memorial service at WAMU Theater, by Lumen Field. Yim was stabbed last month by a bus rider in the U District.

The union that represents transit operators in the Seattle area is planning a public memorial for later this week to honor Shawn Yim, the King County Metro driv

Metro is announcing new safety measures after a bus driver was killed while on duty in mid-December. SEATTLE — King County Metro has begun enacting new safety measures for its drivers almost a month after one was killed while on duty in Seattle.

On Friday at 10 a.m. a bus procession will make its way through downtown. It will begin at the Central Base Area on 6th Avenue, travel up 4th Avenue, turn onto Denny Way, then 2nd Avenue, and end at the Lumen Field Event Center, located at 800 Occidental Avenue South.