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Diahuebs 25 Maart 2021
"Dios ta amor... y amor ta Dios,
maske mi no ta na e mundo aki, tur
dia lo mi ta banda
di boso Curazon, mi por stens di loke
Señor ta hasi"
Salmo 33
Nos ta anuncia cu a fayece:
Leon E. Quandt
Mihor conoci como “Leo”
*19-02-1953 - †10-03-2021
Acto di despedida lo wordo
anuncia despues
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Llie Tong NG
*09-10-1927 - †24-03-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
Spa witness, police reports detail carnage
in Georgia
authorities had a description of
the suspect from security video.
The white man wore a gray and
red jacket, and drove a black
Hyundai SUV. But before they
could catch him, the shooting
started again, this time in Atlan-
ta, roughly 30 miles (50 kilome-
ters) away.
“Hurry,” the caller urged the op-
erator. “They have a gun.”
Ten minutes later, dispatchers
received another 911 call from
a business across the street. The
(AP) — When he heard the the spa more than an hour be- caller said a man walked into
first two gunshots, Marcus fore the shooting started. Police Aromatherapy Spa and fired a
Lyon dove behind the bed haven’t said what he was doing gun, hurting at least one person.
where moments earlier the the rest of the time. Officers who arrived at Gold
massage therapist had been Rita Barron told deputies she Spa found three women dead
rubbing his neck. heard screams and loud thumps from gunshot wounds. Officers
coming from Youngs Asian arriving at the second spa found
He was hiding when the third Massage. Coats fell from the one woman dead from a gun-
shot rang out. The woman who wall inside Barron’s boutique shot wound.
had been kneading the FedEx next door. Police were aided in their cap-
worker’s sore muscles suddenly She found a small, metal object ture of the suspect by Long’s
dropped to the floor. Lyon could on the floor, possibly a bullet. parents, who called authorities
see her, shot in the head, lying She and her husband called 911. offering to help after recogniz-
just a couple of feet from where According to an incident report, ing their son in still images from
he had taken cover. Cherokee Sheriff’s Office Cpl. the security video that the Cher-
“I’m thinking in my head, ‘I’m Tommy Thompkins was patrol- okee County sheriff posted to
about to die. I’m gonna die,’” ling nearby and rushed to the social media.
he recalled. “I started thinking spa after hearing over his radio Using cellphone information
about my son.” that there had been a shooting provided by the parents, au-
Lyon waited in the room, less with multiple victims. He found thorities tracked the suspect to
than a minute, he figures, until Lyon, unharmed, holding the rural Crisp County about 140
he heard the sound of bells sig- door open. miles (225 kilometers) south of
naling someone had opened the Other deputies arrived and Atlanta.
front door at Youngs Asian Mas- swept the business, open- State troopers and sheriff’s dep-
sage. Hearing no more gunfire, ing doors one at a time as they uties spotted his SUV on Inter-
he hurried back into his clothes crept down a long hallway. Two state 75, and one of them forced
and ran outside, grabbed a gun women were lying partially in Long to spin to a stop by bump-
from his vehicle and made the the doorways of separate rooms ing his vehicle.
first 911 call. Dispatchers took on the left side of the hall, both Once stopped, Long surren-
the call at 4:54 p.m. with gunshot wounds to the dered without a fight.
“I wasn’t scared in the moment head but still breathing. Peering Once in custody, Long told in-
because it was kind of too late to into a room on the right, offi- vestigators that he has a sex ad-
be scared,” Lyon said in an inter- cers saw a dead woman slumped diction and lashed out at busi-
view. “I couldn’t believe it was against the back wall. nesses he viewed as a temptation.
happening.” In a back room, deputies found But many people, particularly in
Lyon’s eyewitness account and a dead man who had been shot the Asian American community,
police reports released Tuesday in the head. believe the victims were targeted
reveal a closer look at the car- Behind another closed door, because of their race. Police say
nage of March 16. After kill- deputies found Mario Gonza- they are still trying to determine
ing four people and critically lez sitting on a bed. He looked a motive.
wounding another at the mas- scared and confused, but obeyed The killings tore eight people
sage business in suburban Cher- as deputies with guns drawn or- from their families.
okee County, the lone gunman dered him outside. Yong Ae Yue, 63, cooked home-
drove to neighboring Atlanta Detained in the back of a patrol made Korean dishes for her
and opened fire inside two other car, Gonzalez told deputies he family. Suncha Kim, 69, volun-
spas, police say. didn’t see the shooter. He and teered for charities. Soon Chung
Eight people died altogether — his wife were nearing the end Park, a former dancer, remained
seven of them women and six of hourlong massages, in sepa- youthful and fit at age 74. Xiao-
victims of Asian descent. All rate rooms, when the shooting jie “Emily” Tan, 49, was an en-
were slain within about an hour. began. He said he didn’t know trepreneur who owned Youngs
Security camera footage shows what happened to her. Asian Massage and other busi-
the young man sat in the shop- Gonzalez’s wife, Delaina Ashley nesses. Daoyou Feng, 44, was
ping center parking lot for an Yaun, was among those found one of her employees.
hour before getting out of the dead. Delaina Yaun, 33, was a new
SUV. His right hand in his back After the shootings at Youngs, mother. Paul Michels, 54, in-
pocket, he walked into Youngs the man police have identified stalled security systems. Hyun
Asian Massage through the front as Long walked briskly to his Jung Grant, 51, worked at Gold
door. vehicle, backed out of a park- Spa to support two sons.
Police say the man captured on ing space and headed south. The “She loved me and my brother
the security camera video was killing was just beginning. enough to work for us, to dedi-
21-year-old Robert Aaron Long. A half-hour after being called to cate her whole life,” said Grant’s
The footage shows he entered the scene in Cherokee County, son, 22-year-old Randy Park.