this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. erica hill is with me this morning. developing overnight, security increased in cities across the country. new concerns of anti-asian crime after a deadly murder spree near atlanta targeting the massage parlors. at least eight people killed. according to the atlanta journal constitution, six of them were asian women. a suspect, 26-year-old robert aaron long is in custody and police are not talking about a motive but the concern that these shootings could be racially motivated is real. ryan young is in atlanta with the late-breaking details for us. good morning. reporter: erica, just a devastating attack. leaving a lot of people in the community asking why. you can see one of the massage parlors across the street here and this was surrounded by police for hours and we re waiting to hear what the motive was. a shooting rampag
country as police investigate what may have motivated these murders. anti-asian attacks and hate crimes have been rising sharply since the pandemic hit. let s get the latest from ryan young live this morning in atlanta. good morning. good morning. eight people killed. that s a number that so many people are astonished by. we know police were able to use surveillance video which tied all these scenes together. it s an investigation that still is ongoing. a shooting rampage at three spas in the atlanta metro area tuesday leaving eight people dead and one wounded. police apprehending one suspect. 21-year-old robert aaron long of woodstock, georgia. video evidence suggests it s extremely likely the same person is responsible for all three shootings. georgia state patrol troopers performed a pit maneuver which caused the vehicle to spin out of control. he was taken into custody without incident. reporter: the first shooting took place outside of atlanta at young s asian mass
because as you know, i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple months. and i think it s it is very, very troublesome. but i making no connection at this moment for the motivation of the killer. i m waiting for an answer. police say the man arrested for the rampage has admitted to the shootings. eight people are dead in a ninth wounded in the atlanta area. but as you heard from the president it s not clear if anti-asian racism was the motivation here. six victims were asian women. the other two victims were white. investigators say robert aaron long gunned down four people first in a spa in cherokee county and shot a fifth who is expected to survive. investigators say long then traveled less than an hour south to atlanta, shooting and killing four more people at two massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff in cherokee county where long is in custody says he is talking to convertings and telling them
he considers a sex addiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places and it s a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. you heard him, a temptation he wanted to eliminate. but the atlanta mayor is praising police for acting so quickly because they say this could have been so much worse. the suspect indicated that he was heading down to florida perhaps to carry out similar crimes. we have much more on that. other top stories this afternoon, president joe biden is defending the administration s handling of the thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border, urging anyone considering migrating to the united states to stay home. i can say quite clearly don t come over. and in the process of getting set up, don t leave your town or city or community. and exciting news in the fight against the pandemic. access to covid vaccines is expanding to any person 16 or older in multiple states. as of now, all 50 states have fully va
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