One of three massage parlors where suspect Robert Aaron Long is alleged to have killed four of eight victims. | Youngs Asian Massage
The Southern Baptist church where 21-year-old mass shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long got baptized twice is now grieving for his victims and the families impacted by his deadly shooting rampage at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead Tuesday, including six Asian women.
Jerry Dockery, the lead teaching elder at the Crabapple First Baptist Church in Milton, Georgia, where Long worshiped with his family, prayed on Sunday that God would use his church to have leaders in various areas of the public and private sector “drawn toward you.”
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Atlanta Suspect Robert Aaron Long Says Motive Not Race, But Sex Addiction
On 3/17/21 at 11:40 AM EDT
The man suspected of killing eight people in three shootings at massage parlors in the Atlanta area claimed he has a sex addiction and wanted to eliminate the temptation, authorities said.
Authorities took Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia into custody without incident a few hours after the shootings on Tuesday evening.
At a news conference on Wednesday morning, authorities said it was still too early in the investigation to declare a motive for the shootings.
Cherokee County Chief Frank Reynolds said that during an interview with police, Long had denied the shootings were racially motivated, instead blaming it on a sex addiction issue.
Who Is Robert Aaron Long? Atlanta Shootings Suspect in Custody
On 3/17/21 at 6:36 AM EDT
A 21-year-old white man is in custody after shootings at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area on Tuesday evening.
Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Georgia, was taken into custody in Crisp County after a manhunt, said Captain Jay Baker of Cherokee County Sheriff s Office. He was charged with murder.
Long was described as nerdy and big into religion by a former high school classmate, who spoke anonymously to The Daily Beast.
The classmate, who graduated from Sequoyah High School with Long in 2017, said the suspect was very innocent-seeming and wouldn t even cuss. The person added: He was sorta nerdy and didn t seem violent from what I remember. He was a hunter and his father was a youth minister or pastor.