Only one month shy of the 1-year anniversary of the white supremacist mass murder in an Atlanta spa…
AsAmNews
By Ross Killion, AsAmNews Staff Writer
For the second time in under four weeks, an Asian woman was murdered while working at a massage studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The victim has been identified as Mary Ye, a Taiwanese mother of two in her fifties. Around 11:00pm on Tuesday, February 15, Albuquerque police found Ye dead on the floor at Canna Spa located in a plaza at the corner of Coors Blvd and Los Volcanes Rd in the city’s Northwest quadrant.
The owner of the business, Liu Xiaoyun, was out of town on Tuesday. Liu noticed something was amiss when Ye did not respond to multiple calls and messages over WeChat. “I immediately started to panic.”, said Liu to AsAmNews. “We had agreed to check in with each other everyday when she closed the shop at 9pm. We were very worried about safety because we heard about recent robberies targeting Asian massage studios in New Mexico and the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes over the past two years.”
Surveillance video obtained by AsAmNews shows the victim dead on the floor while a possible suspect is seen gathering items from an office. We’ve obscured the video of the body out of respect for Ye.
“His intention was to murder her. This was targeted.”, said Liu, “They barely interacted and he killed her within minutes of entering the studio. This was more than just a robbery.” The suspect is described as approximately 5 foot 8 inches tall, in his thirties, muscular and either White or Hispanic. It is believed no one else was involved.
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