Husband of Atlanta spa shooting victim says authorities detained him for hours and didn't tell him his wife died
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Last Tuesday, Delaina Ashley Yaun went to a spa in an Atlanta suburb to get a massage with her husband, Mario González, when her life was tragically cut short. Yaun was one of the victims of a gunman who opened fire at Young's Asian Massage and then two other Atlanta-area spas, killing eight people.
That day, González says he not only dealt with the horror of the shooting, but was detained by police officers for hours without knowing if his wife was dead or alive, he told the Spanish-language news site Mundo Hispánico. González and Yaun, who was 33, had recently gotten married and welcomed their first child together, a baby girl. González said the couple went to the spa for massages together, adding that his wife was exhausted from working every day. "We were happy, content, she'd just gotten off work." he told Mundo Hispánico.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.