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Police arrest 39-year-old Raylon Browning in shooting of Atlanta lawyer in ‘targeted hit’ that was caught on security cameras

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Atlanta lawyer&comma; Trinh Huynh&comma; was shot several times in midtown &comma;  during rush hour on Monday morning<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Huynh&comma; 40&comma; was shot as she walked on Peachtree Place about 7&colon;40 a&period;m&period; Monday&comma; police said the killing was a &&num;8216&semi;targeted hit&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Surveillance footage captured the alleged shooter approaching the victim and leaving the area&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong> Police arrested Raylon Browning for the shooting&comma; Monday night<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>39-year-old Browning was stopped by police after running through a traffic light <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>He was caught on CCTV acting calm before and after the shooting&comma; cops said<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Authorities are yet to establish the connection between the victim and the assassin<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Huynh&comma; a childhood refugee from Vietnam&comma;  was a lawyer for UPS who did free work for sex trafficking victims<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-165578" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;raylon-browing-8&period;png" alt&equals;"Raylon Browing 8&period;png" width&equals;"663" height&equals;"416" &sol;>Police have arrested 39-year-old Raylon Browning &lpar;photo&rpar; over the fatal shooting of Trinh Huynh in Atlanta on Monday morning in what authorities described as a &&num;8216&semi;targeted killing&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The 40-year-old UPS lawyer was shot several times at a busy intersection in midtown Atlanta shortly after 7&colon;30am&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police arrested Browning over the shooting  on Monday night after he drove through a red light in nearby Cobb County&comma; the <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ajc&period;com&sol;news&sol;crime--law&sol;midtown-shooting-suspect-allegedly-stabbed-people-day-before-crime&sol;feN643cuZsN2EKUAYFrFQK&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener noreferrer">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<&sol;a> reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-165554" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;trinh-huynh3&period;png" alt&equals;"Trinh Huynh3&period;png" width&equals;"656" height&equals;"588" &sol;>Trinh Huynh an attorney who worked at UPS&comma; volunteered her time working for free with victims of sex trafficking&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Deputy Chief Darryl Tolleson said the 39-year-old was also wanted on assault charges stemming from a separate incident on Sunday&comma; where he allegedly stabbed two people&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The officers did not know Browning was a suspect in Huynh&&num;8217&semi;s murder when they arrested him&comma; the Journal-Constitution reports&period; Police later found what is believed to be the murder weapon in his car&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-165568" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;raylon-browning4&period;png" alt&equals;"Raylon Browning4&period;png" width&equals;"668" height&equals;"376" &sol;><strong>Trinh Huynh was shot dead on Monday morning during rush hour&period; Her killer was seen in CCTV footage &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&period; When Ralon Browing was arrested he was still wearing the same shirt and shorts<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">The arrest comes after CCTV footage showing the man &&num;8211&semi; believed to be Browning &&num;8211&semi; in the moments directly before and after the shooting on Huynh&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;We definitely believe that she was a target&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Lt&period; Ricardo Vazquez said&period; &&num;8216&semi;Why she was a target&comma; we do not know that yet&period;&&num;8217&semi;<span class&equals;"mol-style-bold"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span>The man was spotted walking down Peachtree Place to the junction of Peachtree Road&comma; where he shot Huynh in the back before fleeing the way he came&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I look up and see the woman&comma; she just drops in the crosswalk bleeding&comma;&&num;8217&semi; witness Toney Booker told <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fox5atlanta&period;com&sol;news&sol;245953972-story" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener noreferrer">Fox 5 Atlanta<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-165583" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;police-activity-at-the-intersection-where-trinh-huynh-was-killed-by-a-gunman&period;png" alt&equals;"Police activity at the intersection where Trinh Huynh was killed by a gunman &period;png" width&equals;"690" height&equals;"388" &sol;>Police activity at the downtown intersection where Huynh was fatally shot on Monday morning<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Police believe Huynh was targeted although they aren&&num;8217&semi;t sure why&period; She had performed free work for sex trafficking victims&comma; among others<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;She&&num;8217&semi;s clutching her wound trying to keep pressure&comma; and then she went unresponsive&comma; So civilians run out to her and give her chest compression&&num;8217&semi;s to bring her back&comma; while they&&num;8217&semi;re applying pressure&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She was pronounced dead later&comma; at Grady Memorial Hospital&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;The killer didn&&num;8217&semi;t talk to Huynh before he killed her &&num;8211&semi; suggesting that the killing was &&num;8216&semi;targeted&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; police said&comma; earlier this week&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;We see him following her in another piece of video&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Vazquez said&period; &&num;8216&semi;There was another person in that intersection and it appears that he specifically targeted her&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added that the killer was unusually calm throughout&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A connection between the shooter and Huynh hasn&&num;8217&semi;t yet been established&comma; Vazquez said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img-group floatRHS">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"share-pictures-5" class&equals;"share-pictures-overlay"> <img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-165474" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;raylon-browning-leaving-the-murder-scene-was-caught-on-camera2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Raylon Browning leaving the murder scene was caught on camera2" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"354" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>After Trinh Huynh was shot was shot dead on Monday morning&comma;  during rush hour&comma; the killer was seen on CCTV footage&comma; casually leaving the scene <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"share-pictures-overlay"> Huynh &lpar;pictured in 1979&rpar; came to the US as a child immigrant from Vietnam&comma; and went on to graduate from Princeton&period; She said she was thankful to the US and Georgia<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Huynh was as an in-house lawyer at UPS who had previously worked at law firms Powell Goldstein and Alston &amp&semi; Bird&comma; <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;law&period;com&sol;sites&sol;almstaff&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;04&sol;ups-lawyer-former-big-law-associate-killed-in-atlanta-shooting&sol;&quest;slreturn&equals;20170304142130" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener noreferrer">Law&period;com<&sol;a> reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Outside of work&comma; she traveled extensively and was active in both pro bono legal work and volunteering&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Huynh was a member of the Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network&comma; which provides free legal services to immigrant victims of human trafficking&comma; domestic violence&comma; sexual assault and other crimes<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-165563" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;trinh-huynh6&period;png" alt&equals;"Trinh Huynh6&period;png" width&equals;"676" height&equals;"425" &sol;>Trinh Huynh came to the US in 1979 &lbrack;photo right&rsqb;&comma; as a child immigrant from Vietnam&comma; and went on to graduate from Princeton&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The 40-year-old was born in Saigon&comma; Vietnam&comma; but came to America as a child immigrant&period; She graduated Princeton University in 1998 and Emory University School of Law in 2004&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a January Facebook post&comma; Huynh put up a childhood picture of herself that was taken at a refugee camp on Galang Island in Indonesia in 1979&comma; after her family had fled Vietnam&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;We left under the cover of darkness&comma; uncertain of where our tiny boat would drift and how long it would be seaworthy&comma; uncertain if we would see land again&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she wrote&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;This is the face of a refugee&period; I am proud of my refugee status&period; I am thankful for the opportunities this wonderful country has afforded me and my family&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I would not be here if the State of Georgia and this country had closed their doors and hearts to my family&period; I think this great state and the US have more love to give&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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