6 Asian Women Among 8 Shot Dead At Three US Spas, Suspect Arrested 6 Asian Women Among 8 Shot Dead At Three US Spas, Suspect Arrested Although authorities declined to offer a possible motive for the violence, the attacks prompted the New York Police Department s counter-terrorism unit to announce the deployment of additional patrols in Asian communities there as a precaution.
Updated: March 17, 2021 7:34 am IST
Robert Aaron Long of Woodstock was taken into custody at about 8:30 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday.
Washington:
Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead in a string of attacks on Atlanta-area day spas on Tuesday, and a man suspected of carrying out all of the shootings was arrested hours later in southern Georgia, police said.