Hundreds gathered Friday at a memorial service in Seattle to mourn Yim and call for better protections for bus drivers.

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.

SEATTLE — A memorial service for a King County Metro bus driver who was killed after an altercation with a passenger will be held in Seattle's SODO neighborhood Friday. Shawn Yim had been a King County Metro driver since 2015. A member of the Amalgated Transit Union 587, Yim was beloved by both colleagues and riders.

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.

Hundreds of transit drivers, riders, and community members came together to pay tribute to the first bus driver killed in Seattle in 26 years.

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,

Transit workers held a memorial in downtown Seattle Friday morning for Shawn Yim — the Metro bus driver killed last month in a confrontation with a passenger.

The commemoration will begin with a mid-morning procession of buses and transit vehicles through downtown Seattle to Shawn Yim's memorial service.

SEATTLE — Memorial services for Transit Operator Shawn Yim will be held on Friday morning. Yim, a King County Metro bus driver, was stabbed to death while on the job on December 18. Seattle police say a passenger named Richard Sitzlak is to blame. On Friday at 10 a.m. a bus procession will make its way through downtown.