Fulton County District Attorney will seek death penalty against Atlanta spa shooting suspect
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Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed notice with the Fulton Superior Court on Tuesday that she plans to seek the death penalty and enhanced hate crimes charges against Long in the first test of a hate crime law passed by the Georgia Legislature last year.
Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed notice with the Fulton Superior Court on Tuesday that she plans to seek the death penalty and enhanced hate crimes charges against Long in the first test of a hate crime law passed by the Georgia Legislature last year. I, along with my staff, have made a determination that this office will seek the death penalty, Willis told reporters. Last year, I told the voters of Fulton County that I could not imagine a circumstance where I would seek it. And at that time I did not.
Prosecutor seeks death penalty for Atlanta spa shooting suspect
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Robert Aaron Long, Georgia massage parlors shooting suspect.
ATLANTA, Georgia Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims, according to a source familiar with the criminal investigation.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed notice Tuesday that she plans to seek the death penalty and enhanced hate crimes charges against Long in the first test of the hate crime law passed by the Georgia Legislature last year, according to the source.
ATLANTA
The former Atlanta police officer who faces felony murder charges for fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks in the back after he resisted arrest and grabbed an officer’s taser was reinstated Wednesday after the Atlanta Civil Service Board ruled that the city wrongly terminated him.
Garrett Rolfe, a white officer who faces 11 charges including multiple counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and violation of oath by an officer, was terminated abruptly by the city within 24 hours of shooting Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, in June.
Rolfe will not go back on his beat. According to the Atlanta Police Department, he will remain on administrative leave until the criminal charges are resolved. His reinstatement, which comes two weeks after a jury found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, guilty of murdering George Floyd, who was Black, does not affect the criminal trial.
Cops investigate shooting that killed 15-yo girl
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ATLANTA (WGCL) The Atlanta Police Department is investigating a Saturday night shooting that killed a 15-year-old girl and injured three other people.
An APD spokesman said the 10 p.m. shooting happened near a Waffle House on Glenwood Avenue in the Glenwood Plaza shopping center.
CBS46 News has learned two of the wounded victims were in stable condition.
Police said a 15-year-old girl died from her injuries on the scene. An investigator in the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office identified her as Diamond Johnson.
According to APD, the preliminary investigation suggests that before the shooting, several teenagers were fighting. After the fight, other people, including adults, came to the area and the confrontation continued, eventually leading to gunfire, police said.