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4 Min Read (Reuters) - Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead in a string of attacks at day spas in and around Atlanta, and a man suspected of carrying out the shootings was arrested in southern Georgia, police said. Although authorities declined to offer a 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. South Korea’s fo...

WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - Eight people were shot to death at three massage parlours in the Atlanta area on Tuesday evening (March 16), the authorities said, raising fears that the crimes may have targeted people of Asian descent. Six of the people killed were Asian, and two were white, according to law enforcement officials. All but one were women. A suspect, identified as Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was captured in Crisp County, about 241km south of Atlanta, after a manhunt, sa...

Police take 21-year-old man into custody after manhunt, with authorities confirming most of the victims were Asian women.

Suspect charged with eight murders in Atlanta shootings

Shootings at three massage parlours in US state of Georgia leave eight dead Posted 4 updated 4 Police have not yet offered a motive for the attacks. ( Print text only Cancel United States officials say the suspect in a series of shootings at an Atlanta-area massage parlour that left eight people dead may have a "sexual addiction" and that it was too early to say if the attack was a hate crime. Key points: Police believe one man was behind all three shootings A 21-year-old has been arrested Po...

Georgia spa shooting spree suspect identified as Robert Aaron Long Joseph Wilkinson © Provided by New York Daily News This undated photo provided by the Cherokee County Sheriffs Office, in Georgia, shows Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Ga. After a manhunt late Tuesday, March 16, 2021, authorities took Long into custody in connection with several fatal shootings at massage parlors in the Atlanta area. (Courtesy of Cherokee County Sheriffs Office via AP) Robert Aaron Long, 21,...

Shootings at three massage parlours in the Atlanta area have left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said.

Here is what we know. Author: Donesha Aldridge (11Alive), Adrianne M Haney Published: 6:24 PM EDT March 16, 2021 Updated: 11:49 PM EDT March 16, 2021 CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A manhunt for the suspect in a deadly multi shooting at a Cherokee County massage parlor is now over after he was captured. Authorities had been searching for 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, who they suspected in the shooting. He was captured just before 9 p.m. i...

8 dead in shootings at three spas in metro Atlanta March 16, 2021 7:35 PM CNN Updated: @CherokeeSO/Twitter Authorities in metro Atlanta are investigating whether shootings at three massage parlors that left eight people dead and one wounded are connected. Two of the shootings were at spas across the street from each other in northeast Atlanta and the other was in Cherokee County to the northwest of the city. Officials in each jurisdiction said there were no immediate i...

Atlanta shootings: Asian women among eight killed at 3 US spas Al Jazeera English © Law enforcement personnel leave a massage parlor where a person was shot and killed on March 16, 202... Law enforcement personnel leave a massage parlor where a person was shot and killed on March 16, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. [Elijah Nouvelage/AFP] At least eight people, most of them Asian women, were killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday, with a 2...