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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...

Suspect in Georgia Spa Attacks Charged with Murder Richard Fausset and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3This booking photo provided by the Crisp County Sheriffs Office shows Robert Aaron Long on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Long was arrested as a suspect in the fatal shootings of multiple people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, most of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. (Crisp County Sheriffs Office via AP)APShow More...

Atlanta Police Rule Out Mass Shooting As Cause Of Death After Suspect Says He Didn’t Shoot Anyone ATLANTA—In a press conference updating the public on the ongoing investigation, the Atlanta Police Department revealed Wednesday that they had ruled out mass shooting as a cause of death after the 21-year-old suspect told officers that he didn’t shoot anyone. “Following an exhaustive interrogation in which we repeatedly asked the suspect if he shot anyone and received a definitive ‘no,’...

A man walks past a massage parlor where three women were shot and killed on March 17, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. Suspect Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested after a series of shootings at three Atlanta-area spas left eight people dead on Tuesday night, including six Asian women. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Christian mass shooter Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police he was addicted to pornography and was trying to eliminate “temptation” when he shot up three massage parlors in the Atlanta...

Motive in Georgia spa shootings may not be race, but Asian-Americans fearful By Rich McKay Reuters ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia man facing murder and assault charges after the fatal shootings of eight people, including six Asian women, at Atlanta-area spas indicated he had sexual addiction issues and may have not been motivated by racial hatred, authorities said on Wednesday. Tuesdays killings have intensified fears in Asian-American communities around the United States that have been the ...

Tim Scott responds to MSNBC’s Joy Reids comments calling the senator a ‘prop’ National Democrats rushed to Twitter on Wednesday to blame "White supremacy" and "racism" for the mass shooting spree that targeted massage parlors in the Atlanta area, but police officials say the suspect claimed the deadly shootings were not racially motivated. Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old who authorities said took "responsibility" for the string of shootings Tuesday that left eight people dead, reported...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker expressed support for the states Asian American and Pacific Islander communities Wednesday after eight people, most of Asian descent, were shot to death at Georgia massage parlors. "This mass shooting is an attack on all of our communities," he said, "and an attack like this, which reeks of racialized misogyny, and comes on the heels of a year in which the Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities experienced so much racist scapegoating for the COVID-19 pandem...

Robert Aaron Long. AP Photo ATLANTA: The man accused of killing eight people at massage parlors in the Atlanta area told police his act was not racially motivated, and that he potentially had a "sex addiction," officials said on Wednesday. Still, officials said they were investigating whether the deaths were hate crimes amid concerns over a wave of attacks on Asian Americans. Six of the victims were Asian and seven were women. Officials did not say that Robert Aaron Long, 21, ever went to the...

Killings at Georgia massage parlors horrify Asian American community Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen says the fatal shootings of 8 people, at a time of attacks on Asian Americans nationwide, appear to be at the intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia. By KATE BRUMBACK and ANGIE WANGAssociated Press Share Roula AbiSamra, center, and a woman who asked to be identified only as Chelsey, right, prepare to place flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the Gold Spa in Atlanta on...

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...