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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...

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...

Crisp County Sheriffs Office in Cordele, Georgia, U.S. March 16, 2021. ATLANTA (Reuters) – The suspect in the fatal shooting of eight people at day spas in and around Atlanta indicated he had issues with sexual addiction and the shootings may have not been motivated by racial hatred, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday. Officials said that the 21-year-old suspect, Robert Aaron Long, appeared to have frequented the spas where Tuesday’s violence occurred or similar ones, and that he w...

ATLANTA – 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 Wednesday. Still, authorities 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 identified as Asian and seven were women. It was not clear if Robert A...

What to Know About the Massage Parlor Shootings in Atlanta Derrick Bryson Taylor and Christine Hauser © Nicole Craine for The New York Times Gold Spa in northeastern Atlanta was one of three massage parlors where a gunman shot and killed a total of eight people on Tuesday. At least eight people were killed and another person was injured when a man opened fire on Tuesday evening in three separate Atlanta-area massage businesses, in a northwestern suburb and in the northeastern...

Atlanta Shooting Suspect Is Believed To Have Visited Spas He Targeted By Bill Chappell  March 17, 2021 Updated March 17, 2021 at 1:19 PM ET Robert Aaron Long, the suspected gunman in three attacks that killed eight people at Atlanta-area spas on Tuesday, has confessed to the crime, police said. Six women of Asian descent are among the dead, raising suspicions of a hate crime. Long claims race did not play a role in his decision to target the massage parlors, police said, relaying details from ...

Suspect in Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings was headed to Florida to possibly carry out additional shootings, mayor says Robert Aaron Long, 21, claims to have sex addiction that he wanted to eliminate, Georgia sheriffs official says The Martin County sheriff said Wednesday there have been no threats whatsoever here, but with many spas in this area, hes concerned about copycats. Posted at 11:25 AM, Mar 17, 2021 and last updated 2021-03-17 18:32:37-04 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The suspec...

Police seek motive in Georgia attack on mainly Asian women Poll Too strict ATLANTA – A white gunman accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area massage parlours was charged with murder Wednesday in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community that’s increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic. Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police that the attack was not racially motivated and claimed to have a “sex addiction...

The first shooting took place in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta, around 5 p.m. Roughly 45 minutes later more attacks were reported in Atlanta. After a brief manhunt, deputies in Cherokee County took 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long into custody. “We had really good information about his vehicle, and of course cameras are everywhere now, so from what I understand they were comparing the images from the suspect and his, vehicle and tag information and all that with what they have down there…a...

6 Min Read ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia authorities charged a man with the fatal shootings of eight people, including six Asian women, at Atlanta-area spas, and the violence heightened fears among Asian Americans already rattled by a rise in hate crimes directed at them since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The 21-year-old suspect, Robert Aaron Long, told investigators that a sex addiction drove him to commit Tuesday’s killings and indicated he frequented spas in the area, law enforcement officia...