By Rudy TakalaMay 11th, 2021, 5:28 pm
Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis said in a Tuesday court filing she would seek to charge the man responsible for a March shooting that killed eight people with a hate crime, in addition to seeking the death penalty.
A grand jury in the Georgia county indicted
Robert Aaron Long, 22, as the perpetrator behind the March 16 shooting. Six of the people killed in the attack were women of Asian descent. It will be up to a jury to determine whether Long is guilty of the killings, and under Georgia law, the jury will then issue a verdict on whether the act constituted a hate crime.
The Fulton County district attorney will pursue hate crime charges and the death penalty against the suspect in the March rampage that killed six Asian Americans.
Officials stand in front of a massage parlor after a shooting in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
ATLANTA (CN) A Fulton County grand jury on Tuesday returned murder charges against the man who is accused of gunning down eight people in metro Atlanta massage businesses, and the district attorney said she will seek the death penalty.
Robert Aaron Long, 22, was indicted for the March 16 killings of Suncha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; and Young Ae Yue, 63.
In a surprise announcement, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday she will not seek reelection following her first term in office.
Bottoms said the last three years were not what she would have scripted for Atlanta, reported WABE’s Lisa Hagen. She said it was time to pass the baton.
“I don’t know what’s next for me personally and for our family,” said Bottoms on Friday. “But what I do know is that this is a decision made from a position of strength and not weakness.”
Bottoms was once considered a possible candidate for Joe Biden’s vice president. Money from a March fundraiser headlined by the president will be returned to donors immediately, according to Bottoms.
Just months after being released from prison on his murder charge, the Everyday We Lit rapper reportedly will be ordered back to jail as he is named in a 105-count racketeering indictment.
The Atlanta Civil Service Board found Garrett Rolfe was not afforded his right to due process when he was fired over the shooting of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot.
Children take in a burned Wendy’s location in Atlanta on June 15, 2020, three days after Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in the parking lot by a white police officer. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
ATLANTA (CN) Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, who was fired and charged with murder after fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks last summer, has been reinstated by the city’s Civil Service Board.