The fact that a South American immigrant who came to the United States and worked hard to find a place in Atlanta was in critical condition by the Atlanta shootings is causing regret.
According to the Washington Post (WP) on the 17th (local time), a 30-year-old male, Elcias Hernandez-Ortis, was shot by 21-year-old white male Robert Aaron Long in the afternoon of the afternoon of the 16th near the’Young’s Asian Massage’ in Cherokee County, Georgia Received.
Long killed 8 people, including 4 Koreans, and seriously injured 1 person by shooting at 3 locations, including massage shops and spas.
The only survivor and wounded to be shot is Hernandez-Ortis.
Hernandez-Ortis decided to immigrate to the United States 10 years ago to escape poverty in Guatemala.
Working as a mechanic, I even set up a car repair shop after hard work.
He appears to have been disfigured while trying to visit a shop next to a massage shop to send money to his parents in Guatemala.
After he was shot, he called his wife, Flor Gonzalez, urgently asking, “I got shot. Please come. I need you.”
But sooner or later the conversation stopped and the phone hung up.
The startled wife visited the scene with her 9-year-old daughter, and found her husband lying on the floor surrounded by police and ambulances.
Hernandez-Ortis was taken to the hospital for surgery.
He was injured in the forehead, neck, lungs and stomach, and at least one bullet was lodged in the stomach, but it was too dangerous to remove it yet.
Fortunately, when the medical staff asks you to hold your hand, it is said that there are positive signs, such as reacting.
My wife, Gonzalez, was able to meet her husband only at 12 p.m. after the surgery.
Gonzalez told her husband who couldn’t speak, “Nothing, no one can tear down” he often said, “Now it’s time for you to prove this to me.”
Gonzalez told WP “I know he’s been listening to me because he’s been moving,” and that a daughter who will soon be on her 10th birthday is waiting for her dad to come home.
He also said, “I can’t understand why someone did this,” he said, “My husband came to America without anything, and he has come a long way. He is strong and optimistic.”
At the same time, he said that it will be a long journey again until his husband recovers, but he said he thanked the god for giving him the chance to survive.