More Arrests In Fatal Shooting Over Face Mask.
WHITFIELD: Two fugitives are now in custody after being sought in connection with the shooting death of a Michigan security guard after dispute over a security -- wearing a face mask. Calvin Munerlyn, was doing his job at a dollar store in Flint, Michigan when he was shot and killed after telling a customer to where a state mandated facemask. Video footage shows the customer leaving the store after a verbal altercation with the guard and then later two men arrived. And police say one of them yelled at Munerlyn about disrespecting his wife, the second man that allegedly shot the security guard in the back of the head. Munerlyn's widow spoke with our Don Lemon about her husband's murder.</s>LATRYNA MUNERLYN, WIDOW OF SECURITY GUARD CALVIN MUNERLYN: That was senseless and stupid and now my babies without a father for the rest of their life. One thing they can't to take away was my baby was the legendary king and his legacy going to live on and they can't take that away, never.</s>WHITFIELD: I want to bring in now David Leyton. He is the Genesee County prosecutor and he joins us now from Flint. Good to see you. Boy, this is terribly sad. What is your reaction to a murder like this in your community?</s>DAVID LEYTON, GENESEE COUNTY PROSECUTOR: It's senseless and tragic and totally unanticipated. Here's a man just doing his job trying to tell someone you got to come into the store with a face mask on. And the man loses his life over it. It's just so tragic. And I think that the community, actually the whole world has looked at this because if you see their GoFundMe page, it's almost $400,000 for the widow and the eight children that Duper was his nickname left behind, very, very sad case.</s>WHITFIELD: Oh, it's terrible. So then tell me about the circumstances of, you know, why the suspects, I guess were considered, you know, fugitives then arrested. And the two arrested. Does that indeed involve the first person who allegedly had the initial encounter with the security guard?</s>LEYTON: Yes. She was the wife of one of the alleged folks who came back and the mother of the shooter. In fact, we believe that after the altercation, she called back to her husband and son and told them what happened. And we believe she encouraged them to come back and retaliate for the alleged disrespect that she felt Mr. Munerlyn showed her and not letting her daughter come in with the mask. In all we have six people in custody now, three in this and the rest here in Michigan.</s>WHITFIELD: Oh my goodness. And, you know what -- how do you assess all of this? Because this comes what -- and so a week after you saw people, you know, they're in Michigan, go into the statehouse, some wearing, you know, weapons threatening that you know, they want their freedom back and then you have something like this associated with the wearing of mask, which are the kinds of protections that many of the demonstrators are have been resenting? Do you make a correlation between, you know, all of these sentiments and, you know, short fuses or people being agitated?</s>LEYTON: You know, Fredricka, that's a very, very good question. And I thought a lot about it. And I really believe that the hostile tone that we've seen in various state capitals that we've seen on social media can permeate our society in a way that we never really anticipate. You know, decisions like staying home or wearing a mask when going to the store or staying a safe distance from those around us, to me, those aren't political arguments, those should not necessitate acts of defiance or violence in this case. And it was something so unanticipated. But I think this whole belief that you can't tell me what to do kind of gets into some people's psyche, and can have a reaction that none of us can really understand or anticipate. So I've asked my community to let's ratchet down the tone here. Let's ratchet down the hostile tone that we've seen. We've really all got to come together to get back to our way of life sooner rather than later.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, David Leyton, thank you so much for this.</s>LEYTON: Thank you very much.</s>WHITFIELD: Be well. Roy Horn of the legendary Las Vegas magic duo Siegfried and Roy has died of complications from coronavirus. His partner Siegfried Fischbacher wrote, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend. The two were known for their performances with white lions, white tigers. They started their show in Europe in the late 1950s before bringing their show to Las Vegas for the next four decades. It ended after Horn was attacked on stage by a tiger back in 2003. Roy Horn was 75 years old. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All right, we began with a staggering new coronavirus death toll here in the U.S., the number now surpassing 77,000, with more than 1.2 million confirmed infections.