former Haitian boxer Azea Augustama was arrested this Wednesday by the Miami Police (USA), after threatening to carry out a shooting at a gym. local armed with an assault rifle he had just bought.
Augustama, 39, was arrested on two counts of issuing written threats to commit mass shooting and death threats, according to local newspapers.
The detainee had his first appearance in Miami-Dade County court on Wednesday, where He was placed on $3 million bail and placed under strict house arrest. of “total imprisonment” in case the amount is deposited.
“I believe that he represents a great danger to the community, as well as to the victims, because of his actions and threats made.” Judge Mindy Glazer said at the hearing.
Born in Haiti, the country he represented at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Augustama had 18 victories throughout his career as a professional boxer, earning him the nickname ‘Haitian Hitman’.
The former boxer, who moved to the United States as a minor and graduated from North Miami Beach High School, is a personal trainer at the BOXR gym, but Her managers canceled her membership after a discussion with someone inside the facilities and was even given a temporary restraining order.
The owner of this establishment, Mario Attalla, told local channel WPLG that he was forced to cancel the former boxer’s membership, with the promise of his money back, after being rude to another trainer because of a small incident.
“He got a little angry and aggressive, so we had to pull him away and say, ‘Look, you can’t talk to people like that,’ and he got angry.“said Attala, after adding that he then had to tell her that she couldn’t go back to the gym.
On Tuesday, Augustama contacted the police to retrieve his belongings from the area and shortly thereafter began posting messages on his Instagram account in which he indicated that he was considering doing “mass shooting.”
In one, he posted a photo of the Parkland High School shooter, with the caption that he was “considering shooting” several people for being kicked out of the gym, including one person who accused him of “touching One girl.”
“He was the first one to get my gun“, he wrote in another message on the social network, along with a photo of a person, perhaps with whom he had an argument in the gym, while in another publication he said that he was “ready to shoot with a real weapon or a bazooka.”
According to the authorities, on Tuesday afternoon Augustama went to a jewelry and weapons store, where he deposited $150 to buy an AK-47 rifle.. By then, the threats had been reported to the Miami Police Violent Crimes Unit.
After being approached by officers, the former boxer admitted that he was the author of the threats on the internet and that he bought the rifle.
As the Miami Herald points out, Augustama began his boxing career at the age of 15 in state competitions and nationals, and made his professional debut in 2010 in the light heavyweight category.
His arrest came after Tuesday in Chesapeake, a town in Virginia, an employee of the Walmart supermarket chain and department stores killed six workers with a pistol and then shot himself.
Before that, over the weekend five people were killed in a shooting at an LGBT club in Colorado.
According to the Gun Violence Archive organization, so far this year there have been 606 “mass shootings” in the US in which at least four people have been killed or injured.
Source: La Verdad
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