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.
A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlours in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.
Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia spas
By KATE BRUMBACK The Associated Press,March 17, 2021, 9:21 p.m.
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A makeshift memorial outside of Gold Spa in Atlanta on Wednesday, one of three businesses where at least eight people were killed and another injured by a shooter on Tuesday.LYNSEY WEATHERSPOON
ATLANTA (AP) â 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.
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 6:25 AM EDT - Updated March 18 at 6:15 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.
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ATLANTA Eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, were killed Tuesday night in three shootings at Atlanta-area spas before police arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of being the lone gunman.
Police said the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, told authorities that his actions were not racially motivated and that he frequented some of the spas where the shootings took place. Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker said Long viewed the spas as a temptation that he wanted to eliminate.