After the attacks on the spa, officers handcuffed the victim’s worried husband for four hours.

ACWORTH, Ga. Mario González heard the gunfire from Young’s Asian Massage and immediately became concerned about his wife, who was in another room. But before he could investigate her, he said law enforcement officers handcuffed and detained him for about four hours while they worked to determine the identity of the gunman.

At the time, officers told him: His wife, Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33, had been killed.

Mr. González describes the March 16 shooting and the confusing hours that followed in a video interview and news report published by Spanish news website Mundo Hispánico. He expressed his frustration with law enforcement officials for detaining him, pointing out that he may have been treated badly because he was a Latin, and he shared his grief over the loss of his wife.

“They took away the most precious thing I have in my life,” he said. González said about the gunman before stopping himself and correcting times. “I had it.”

The attack on Young’s Asian Massage was part of a shooting spree in three spas in and around Atlanta. Mrs. Yaun was among eight people killed by a gunman who deliberately targeted employees at the businesses, law enforcement officials said.

Representatives of the sheriff on Sunday did not immediately respond to messages that commented, but the accusations that Mr. González raised comes after the agency had already investigated after a sheriff’s spokesman described the gunman as a ‘very bad day’. ”

The spokesman, Capt. Jay Baker, was no longer the office’s public representative in the case, and the sheriff, Frank Reynolds, apologized and defended Captain Baker for not intending to disrespect the victims or their families. “We are sorry for the sadness of Captain Baker’s words,” said Sheriff Reynolds.

The efforts to Mr. Reaching González in recent days has also been unsuccessful.

Tuesday was an appointment for Mr. González and me. Yaun, and the couple, who got married last spring, went to work at Young’s Asian Massage in Acworth, a suburb of Atlanta. They arrived shortly before the shooting began, Mr. González said in the video interview and they were ushered into different rooms for their massage.

According to authorities, Robert Aaron Long (21) started Young Ramp shortly before 5pm on Tuesday, who was trapped in a small shopping center between a boutique and hair salon.

Mr. González told Mundo Hispánico that he heard the gunshots, but that he was too scared to open the door to see what was happening. He was afraid that the bullets would fly into the room where his wife was taken.

After the sheriff’s deputies arrived in Cherokee County, he was detained and detained for about four hours, according to Mundo Hispánico.

He said he did not see his wife when he was led out of the spa, and officers did not let him get close to her. Eventually, he said, officers told him his wife had been killed.

“And they knew I was the man,” he said. González said about the authorities. He kept a photo of himself with his wife while he spoke. “They gave me the news that she was dead.”

He questioned why it took officials so long to tell him that his wife had died, and wondered why they detained him in the first place.

“Maybe I do not know because I’m Mexican,” he said. “Because the truth is, they treated me badly.” He shows the camera the marks left on his arm from the handcuffs placed on him by officers.

Mr. González it me. Yaun met in a Waffle House restaurant, where he was a customer and she was a server. Me. Yaun was a single parent and raised a 13-year-old son. The couple got married last year and had a daughter who is now 8 months old. “What I need most now is support,” he said. González said in the interview.

After the shooting at the Acworth spa, authorities said Long continued his attack. Firearms were reported at two other massage parlors near each other in Atlanta.

His car was spotted two hours later, about 150 miles south of Atlanta, in Crisp County, Ga., Officials said.

Investigators said Long appeared to be motivated by sex addiction. He targeted the spas as an outlet for something “he should not have done,” Captain Baker told a news conference last week.

Mr. Lung is charged with eight counts of murder. On Sunday, Crabapple First Baptist Church, the conservative congregation that was central to his life, formally expelled him from church membership, saying it “can no longer confirm that he is truly a born-again believer in Jesus Christ.”

In Sunday services, the first since the riot, the sermon was devoted to grief and pain, including biblical passages of loss and lamentation. The names of the eight victims were read out.

“Our hearts are broken,” said Jerry Dockery, the senior pastor, adding that the congregation was struck by the “hatred and violence” of the attacks.

It was a sense of devastation with which Mr. González struggled when he considered leaving his stepson and daughter without me. Yaun to make great.

“That killer,” he said in the interview, “just left me in pain. ‘

Rick Rojas reported by Acworth and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of New York. Jack Healy reported from Milton, Ga, contributed.