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1626 (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 forei...

Georgia massage parlour shooter may have sex addiction, police say 17 Mar, 2021 05:16 PM 7 minutes to read Officials at the scene of a fatal shooting at a massage parlour in Woodstock, Georgia. Photo / Brynn Anderson, AP Other By: Kate Brumback & Angie Wang of AP A white man accused of killing eight people, most of whom were of Asian descent, at massage parlours in the Atlanta area told police the attack was not racially motivated and that he potentially had a "sex addiction", officials said We...

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...

“He made indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past,” said Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds. He said it was too early to tell if it was racially motivated. “But the indicators right now are it may not be. It may be targets of opportunity. Again, we believe that he frequented these places in the past and maybe have been lashing out.” Many suspects who commit mass shootings have a history of violence aga...

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 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.

NorthJersey.com Along a busy commercial corridor across from the Fort Lee Community Center, Grace Kim reflected on how vulnerable she felt after the attacks that killed six Asian American women in Georgia on Tuesday.   Eight people in all died in three shootings at Atlanta-area spas, before police arrested a 21-year-old man accused of being the lone gunman. Although the suspect reportedly told police that race was not a motive, the deaths came after a spate of high-profile assaults on Asia...

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. Long told police that Tuesday’s attack was not racially...

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...

Mar 17, 2021 A police officer watches as a body is taken from the Gold Spa massage parlor after a shooting, late Tuesday in Atlanta. Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left multiple people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia this morning after a manhunt, police said. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials said this morning that t...