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Police investigate suspects motive in Atlanta-area killings Share Updated: 3:44 PM CDT Mar 17, 2021 By KATE BRUMBACK and ANGIE WANG, Associated Pressv Police investigate suspects motive in Atlanta-area killings Share Updated: 3:44 PM CDT Mar 17, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript a search for clues and clarity In metro Atlanta, A crime against any community is a crime against us all. Following shootings at three different massage parlors on Tuesday that left...

ATLANTA -- 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. Long told police that Tuesdays attack was not racially motivate...

Article content 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. 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 precaut...

By Jason Hall Mar 17, 2021 Eight people are dead were wounded following shootings at three Atlanta-area spas on Tuesday (March 16) evening. Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested following a brief manhunt, Cherokee County Sheriffs Captain Jay Baker confirmed to Federal agents joined the investigation into the incidents on Tuesday, which began in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta, and later included two other shootings in Atlanta, with at least six of the victims appearin...

Little is publicly known about the 21-year-old Long as of Tuesday night.

Atlanta shootings: Biden, Obama decry attacks on Asians AFP/Washington (Reuters) Violence against people of Asian decent must end. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said violence against Asian Americans is “very troublesome” and spoke of the concern in the Asian American community after a mass shooting in Atlanta. “I know that Asian Americans are very concerned because, as you know, I’ve been speaking about the brutality against Asian-Americans for the last couple of months,” he said. ...

By Jason Hall Mar 17, 2021 Eight people are dead were wounded following shootings at three Atlanta-area spas on Tuesday (March 16) evening. Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested following a brief manhunt, Cherokee County Sheriffs Captain Jay Baker confirmed to Federal agents joined the investigation into the incidents on Tuesday, which began in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta, and later included two other shootings in Atlanta, with at least six of the victims appearin...

Xenophobia fears sparked as Asian women among 8 killed in Atlanta spa shootings "We never know when were at the wrong place at the wrong time because this was so all of a sudden." A handout booking photo released by the Crisp County Sheriffs Office on 16 March 2021 shows 21-year-old shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long. Picture: Crisp County Sheriffs Office/AFP one day ago ATLANTA - Six Asian women were among ...

Atlanta-area spa shootings: Confessed shooter motivated by “addiction to sex,” officials say By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team Published  Deadly spa shooting rampage More details surrounding a deadly rampage that killed eight people at three metro Atlanta spas have been released. ATLANTA - Law enforcement officials said a suspect in three deadly shootings at Atlanta-area spas confessed his guilt, saying his motive stemmed from a sexual addiction. "Its a temptation for him that he wante...

By Jason Hall Mar 17, 2021 Eight people are dead were wounded following shootings at three Atlanta-area spas on Tuesday (March 16) evening. Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested following a brief manhunt, Cherokee County Sheriffs Captain Jay Baker confirmed to Federal agents joined the investigation into the incidents on Tuesday, which began in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta, and later included two other shootings in Atlanta, with at least six of the victims appearin...