A survivor of the gruesome Georgia spa shooting rampage was handcuffed for two hours as his wife lay dying.
Mario González, the husband of Delaina Ashley Yaun, begged officers to find out his wife’s condition, but the police ignored his pleas.
“He was in the handcuffs for like two hours because they thought it might be him,” Jessica González, the survivor’s 20-year-old niece, said in an interview.
“He’s very upset and angry about that. He was handcuffed for something he didn’t do. I think it was a racial thing. He was the only one left in handcuffs.”
“He kept asking, “Where’s my wife? Where’s my wife?” and nobody would give him an answer,” she added.
“He didn’t get any answers until a couple hours later.”
During a phone interview, Mario said in Spanish that he is too upset and traumatized to talk about the horrifying incident, adding that he struggles to maintain focus to care for his baby and plan for a funeral.
He did, however, said that the suspect should “pay the death penalty at a minimum” for his crimes.”
“He’s mourning,” Jessica shared. “He’s not sleeping, trying to be with his baby right now.”
Mario and Delaina were in separate rooms waiting for their massages to start at Young’s Asian Massage Parlor when the 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long started shooting.
“When they heard shooting, my uncle screamed for his wife, but he didn’t see her,” Jessica shared.
Delaina’s mother, Margaret Rushing, added that the night was supposed to be a treat for the couple.
“She wanted a day just her and her husband, spend a little time together, all she wanted was their massages,” she said.
Long was arrested after shooting at three spas in different locations around Georgia, killing eight victims, of which the majority are of Asian descent.