By KATE BRUMBACK | Associated Press Mar 17, 2021
Mar 17, 2021
ATLANTA (AP) â The man accused of killing eight people at massage parlors in the Atlanta area told police his act was not racially motivated, and that he potentially had a sex addiction, officials said Wednesday.
Still, officials said they were investigating whether the deaths were hate crimes amid concerns over a wave of attacks on Asian Americans. Six of the victims were Asian and seven were women.
Officials did not say that Robert Aaron Long, 21, ever went to the parlors where the shootings occurred. They also said he was planning to go to Florida in a plot to attack some type of porn industry.
ATLANTA A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.
A day after the shootings, investigators were trying to unravel what might have compelled 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long to commit the worst mass killing in the U.S. in almost two years.
Long told police that Tuesday s attack was not racially motivated. He claimed to have a sex addiction, and authorities said he apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation. But those statements spurred outrage and widespread skepticism given the locations and that six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent.
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Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlors
Atlanta spa murders highlight a rise in violence against Asian Americans in the United States By KATE BRUMBACK and ANGIE WANG | March 17, 2021 at 5:25 AM CDT - Updated March 18 at 5:15 AM
ATLANTA (AP) A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.
A day after the shootings, investigators were trying to unravel what might have compelled 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long to commit the worst mass killing in the U.S. in almost two years.