Bouquet in front of a massage shop that was shotThe fact that a South American immigrant who came to the U.S. and worked hard to find a place in the United States fell into a critical condition in the Atlanta shootings is known to create 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 Equines, 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 by the shooting was 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 being shot, he called his wife, Flor Gonzalez, and urgently asked, “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 to it.
Gonzalez, his wife, was able to meet her husband only at 12 p.m. after the surgery. His face was covered with gauze, and a tube was attached to his mouth.
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 return home.
He also said, “I can’t understand why someone did this,” he said. “My husband came to the United States 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 God for giving him the chance to survive.
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