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More than 60 people gathered recently in Southside Richmond for the candlelight vigil to commemorate the Atlanta shooting victims and to call attention to recent anti-Asian violence.
"We did not want to be here, but we are here because of the hate," said Mahmud Chowdhury, chairman of the Asian American Society of Central Virginia. "Because of madness in some people's hearts and because of racism."
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The vigil was one of numerous events across Virginia this past March as communities, advocates and lawmakers came together in response to the murder of eight people in Atlanta. Six of the eight victims were Asian women. Police charged 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, who is white, with eight counts of murder.