Chef ‘left for dead’

Brutal Chicago carjack

A suburban Chicago chef was brutally beaten and robbed during a carjacking and may never fully recover from a severe brain injury, his traumatized sons said.

Jin Yut Lew, 61, was carjacked, robbed and “left for dead” during a violent attack on April 7 near Chicago’s Chinatown section, in which he was assaulted with a blunt object to the head and face, his sons said.

“He was found by street cleaners who reported the incident to the police and an ambulance brought him to the hospital,” Alford and Richard Lew said in an online fundraiser. “He required immediate brain surgery and was diagnosed with severe brain trauma.”

Lew, who immigrated to the US from China in the early 1980s, remains in a coma at a hospital where he was transported after being found “incoherent” and bleeding from the head, Chicago police told The Post on Friday.

Lew’s sons said he was well-respected in Chicago’s Chinese restaurant community, where for 40 years he provided new immigrants opportunities to begin their lives in the US.

“Many of these colleagues went on to be restaurant leaders across Chicago,” Alford and Richard Lew said. “His work in the kitchen will likely be over.”

The fundraiser for Lew’s medical bills and subsequent physical therapy had eclipsed $63,000 as of Friday.

Detectives are investigating the incident as an aggravated vehicular hijacking. No arrests had been made as of Friday, a Chicago police spokeswoman told The Post.

Doctors at Stroger Hospital have given his family a bleak outlook, Alford Lew told the Tribune.