SWFL Asian-American, Pacific Islander communities discuss targeted hostility during pandemic
Published: April 7, 2021 5:40 PM EDT
Updated: April 7, 2021 6:31 PM EDT
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Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities in Southwest Florida organized a symposium Wednesday to discuss the violence and verbal attacks directed toward these community members associated with the coronavirus and the pandemic.
Violence against Asian-Americans nationwide has been hard to watch for many. There have been no such reports in Southwest Florida.
But members of these communities who we spoke to say there has been no limit to verbal attacks and discrimination.
“Being called Chinaman and also chinks,” said Dr. Colin Feng, a member of Asian Professionals Association of Southwest Florida.
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diane s body were badly damaged, but the bottom part was relatively intact. i didn t have the whole bullet, but at least had the entire circumference of the base i could examine. they could discern the lands and grooves on the bottom of the fatal bullets. the bullets test fired from diane s gun were the same as those that killed her. you re looking for these matching scratches. they have to have the same type of character, in other words, depth or the width of them and the spacing between them. despite the amount of decomposition, scientists recovered a biological sample from diane s body which matched ronnie neal s dna profile, proof of sexual assault. eventually, pearl told investigators the entire story of what happened to diane tilly.
something s not right. the prime suspects in diane tilly s disappearance were the middle aged man and young girl last seen driving a white pickup truck. every plam in the area was on the look out. it wasn t long before they stopped two people who fit that description. they were identified as 15-year-old pearl cruz and her 33-year-old father ronnie neal. both denied any involvement in diane tilly s disappearance, but they admitted stealing her car. you said, i was at a car wash and i found diane tilly s car. he said, you re not going to believe this, but the car was running and the door was open and there was all this stuff in it and i just couldn t resist it.
15-year-old daughter pearl cruz and charged them both with kidnapping and murder. investigators discovered that ronnie neal had done some landscaping work for diane and she even gave him a swing set she se no longer needed. diane took a little bit of care to engage pearl. she mentioned something to pearl about, you know, i like your nail polish. it s pretty. and i think she asked pearl where she went to school. pearl cruz told investigators that she and her father planned almost from the start to rob diane. well, it s a very disturbing story. it s disturbing on many levels. it s not an easy story to digest at all. on the night of the murder, pearl knocked on diane s door
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