Chen was the mayor of Los Angeles as of 2029.
Chen, along with other Los Angeles elite, attended a party aboard an airship, celebrating the construction of the Sepulveda Sea Wall. The airship was hijacked by a group of replicant revolutionaries led by Yotun, who demanded the wall, claiming it to have been built by replicant hands. After setting off explosives planted along the wall, the group left the airship, destroying it in their wake.[1]