亚特兰大——一名男子在上周亚特兰大地区的一次按摩业务中开枪打死了他的妻子,他幸免于难,他说袭击发生后,警察用手铐将他拘留了四个小时。
马里奥·冈萨雷斯(Mario Gonzalez)说,他被关押在水疗中心外的一辆巡逻车里。这一消息是在接受西班牙语新闻网站Mundo Hispanico采访时透露的。此前,切诺基县官员对调查3月16日造成4人死亡的袭击事件提出了其他批评。大约一小时后,亚特兰大的两个温泉浴场又有四人被杀。
冈萨雷斯的指控还意味着,在警方公布嫌疑枪手的安全视频图像以及当局在亚特兰大以南约150英里(240公里)处抓获嫌疑人后,他仍被拘留。冈萨雷斯质疑当局对他的处理是否是因为他是墨西哥人。
切诺基县治安官弗兰克·雷诺兹(Frank Reynolds)在周一下午的一份电子邮件声明中表示,他的办公室不会对此案发表任何进一步评论,并将重点放在调查和起诉上。
罗伯特·尤小龙,一名21岁的白人男子,被指控在伍德斯托克附近的第一个犯罪现场枪杀了五个人,包括冈萨雷斯的妻子德莱娜·阿什利·亚恩,伍德斯托克位于亚特兰大以北大约30英里(50公里)。一名男子受伤。总共有七名遇害者是女性,其中六名是亚裔。
切罗基郡治安官杰伊·贝克上尉(Jay Baker)在枪击事件发生后的第二天告诉记者,龙“今天过得真糟糕”,“这就是他所做的”,他被解除了该案的发言人职务。去年,一个似乎属于贝克的脸书页面推广了一件带有种族主义语言的关于中国和冠状病毒的t恤。
警长雷诺兹(Reynolds)发表声明,承认贝克的一些言论引发了“许多辩论和愤怒”,并表示该机构对他的话引起的任何“心痛”感到遗憾。
冈萨雷斯和33岁的亚恩为他们年幼的女儿找了一个保姆,去杨氏亚洲按摩放松。枪手开枪时,他们在里面的不同房间里。
冈萨雷斯听到枪声,担心他的妻子,但不敢开门,他在一次视频采访中告诉《西班牙世界报》。几分钟后代表们就到了。根据该网站,冈萨雷斯说他们给他戴上手铐,拘留了他大约四个小时。
冈萨雷斯在视频中说:“他们在调查到底是谁干的,到底是谁干的时侯,我一直在巡逻车里。”。
在接受西班牙世界报采访时,冈萨雷斯展示了他手腕上的手铐痕迹。“我不知道是因为法律还是因为我是墨西哥人。简单的事实是,他们对我很差,”他说。
“只有当他们最终确认我是她的丈夫时,他们才告诉我她已经死了,”他说。“我想早点知道。”
冈萨雷斯独自抚养他们的女儿和他妻子十几岁的儿子,他说枪手拿走了“我一生中最重要的东西”
“他该死,就像其他人一样,”冈萨雷斯说。
当局表示,切诺基县的枪击发生在下午5点左右,下午6点30分刚过,警长办公室在Facebook上发布了监控摄像头的静态图像,显示一名嫌疑人在外面的停车场。雷诺兹说,龙的家人从这些照片中认出了他,并给了调查人员他的手机信息,他们用这些信息跟踪他。
克里斯普县治安官比利·汉考克在当晚发布在Facebook上的一段视频中说,他的副手和州警在晚上8点左右被通知嫌疑人正在前往他们的路上。大约晚上8点30分,代表和警察在州际公路上看到了黑色的2007现代图森。一名警察进行了一次机动,导致车辆失控。
佐治亚州巡逻队在报告中说,龙在车里一动不动地坐了大约30秒钟,然后在接到多次命令后举起双手。报道称,龙随后从车上下来,落到地上,并被拘留。
根据《亚特兰大宪法日报》获得的报告,警方在他的一个口袋里发现了一把上膛的手枪,在另一个口袋里发现了一把刀。
Shooting victim's husband says police detained him for hours
ATLANTA -- A man who survived the shooting that killed his wife at an Atlanta-area massage business last week said police detained him in handcuffs for four hours after the attack.
Mario Gonzalez said he was held in a patrol car outside the spa. The revelation, in an interview with Mundo Hispanico, a Spanish-language news website, follows other criticism of Cherokee County officials investigating the March 16 attack, which killed four people. Four others were killed about an hour later at two spas in Atlanta.
Gonzalez’s accusation would also mean that he remained detained after police released security video images of the suspected gunman and after authorities captured that suspect about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Atlanta. Gonzalez questioned whether his treatment by authorities was because he's Mexican.
Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said in an emailed statement Monday afternoon that his office would not have any further comment on the case and is focusing on the investigation and prosecution.
Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, is accused of shooting five people, including Gonzalez's wife Delaina Ashley Yaun, at the first crime scene near Woodstock, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta. One man was wounded. In all, seven of the slain victims were women, six of them of Asian descent.
Cherokee sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker was removed as spokesman for the case after telling reporters the day after the shootings that Long had “a really bad day” and “this is what he did.” A Facebook page appearing to belong to Baker promoted a T-shirt with racist language about China and the coronavirus last year.
Reynolds, the sheriff, released a statement acknowledging that some of Baker’s comments stirred “much debate and anger” and said the agency regretted any “heartache” caused by his words.
Gonzalez and Yaun, 33, had gotten a babysitter for their infant daughter and went to Youngs Asian Massage to relax. They were in separate rooms inside when the gunman opened fire.
Gonzalez heard the gunshots and worried about his wife but was too afraid to open the door, he told Mundo Hispanico in a video interview. Deputies arrived within minutes. Gonzalez said they put him in handcuffs and detained him for about four hours, according to the website.
“They had me in the patrol car the whole time they were investigating who was responsible, who exactly did this,” Gonzalez said in the video.
During the interview with Mundo Hispanico, Gonzalez showed marks on his wrists from handcuffs. “I don’t know whether it’s because of the law or because I’m Mexican. The simple truth is that they treated me badly,” he said.
“Only when they finally confirmed I was her husband, did they tell me that she was dead," he said. "I wanted to know earlier.”
Left alone to raise their daughter and his wife's teenage son, Gonzalez said the shooter took “the most important thing I have in my life."
"He deserves to die, just like the others did,” Gonzalez said.
Authorities have said the shooting in Cherokee County happened around 5 p.m., and just after 6:30 p.m. the sheriff's office posted on Facebook still images from a surveillance camera showing a suspect in the parking lot outside. Reynolds said Long's family recognized him from those images and gave investigators his cellphone information, which they used to track him.
Crisp County Sheriff Billy Hancock said in a video posted on Facebook that night that his deputies and state troopers were notified around 8 p.m. that the suspect was headed their way. Deputies and troopers set up along the interstate and saw the black 2007 Hyundai Tucson around 8:30 p.m. A trooper performed a maneuver that caused the vehicle to spin out of control.
Long sat motionless in the car for about 30 seconds, then raised his hands after multiple commands to do so, the Georgia State Patrol said in its report. Long then got out of the vehicle and onto the ground, and was taken into custody, it said.
Police found a loaded handgun in one of his pockets and a knife in the other, according to the report, which was obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.