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(NewsNation) — Imagine 1 time moving successful a salon and not realizing you're cutting the hairsbreadth of a execution suspect.
Meet Adriana Ruiz Avalos.
Avalos was giving Andrew James McGann a haircut erstwhile authorities arrested him for allegedly sidesplitting a joined mates past play successful Devil's Den State Park successful Arkansas.
Before the arrest, "he looked soulless," Avalos told "Banfield" connected Thursday. "He didn't look right. As I was examining him, his hair, his scalp looked precise adust and matted."
Hairdresser had 'eerie feeling' astir McGann
Avalos, contempt ne'er knowing oregon seeing McGann spell into the salon before, said his beingness gave her a weird feeling arsenic she asked him to travel beryllium for her to chopped his hair.
"As soon arsenic I saw him, arsenic I was telling him to travel into my chair, I had an eerie feeling astir him," Avalos said.
Avalos said McGann's eyes arsenic helium walked toward her were precise noticeable: "They were precise sunken."
Before opening the haircut, Avalos' aunt — who besides works astatine the salon — had asked McGann to motion his name, but was met with a blank stare.
"Something benignant of didn't consciousness right," said Avalos, based connected her aunt's reaction.
McGann showed nary emotion during arrest
When McGann was being arrested, Avalos said, helium didn't look to admit the concern helium was facing.
When the detective came into the salon, "He had his caput down the full time," Avalos said. "And helium truly didn't accidental thing until they're, like, 'I judge it's your car.'"
Special agents with the Arkansas State Police person arrested Andrew James McGann, 28, of Springdale, successful transportation to a double homicide astatine Devil’s Den State Park connected July 26, 2025. (Courtesy)
Picture of suspect's backmost successful Devil's Den State Park killings. (COURTESY)
Sketch of the fishy successful Devil's Den State Park killings. (COURTESY)
Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were recovered dormant connected a walking way astatine Devil’s Den State Park successful Arkansas. (Source: GoFundMe)
A mates was killed portion hikiung astatine Devil's Den State Park. (KNWA)
Wrapping her caput astir the full situation, Avalos said it was ace upsetting.
"It does instrumentality a toll connected someone. I'm conscionable overwhelmed. I'm saddened due to the fact that 2 small girls mislaid their parents. And it's ... a soulless enactment by Andrew. It's unimaginable."
McGann was charged with 2 counts of superior execution for Clinton and Cristen Brink's deaths aft his arrest. He is being held without enslaved astatine the Washington County jail.
