District attorney breaks no death penalty pledge when charging mass shooter
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed notice with the Fulton Superior Court 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, Ms Willis told reporters.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is pushing for Robert Aaron Long to be executed.(AP) 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.
A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges, and a prosecutor filed notice that she'll also seek hate crime charges and the death penalty. A Fulton County grand jury indicted Robert Aaron Long, 22, in the…
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty and file hate crime charges against the man accused of shooting dead eight people in attacks on three spas in Georgia.
Robert Aaron Long was indicted by a grand jury in Georgia s Fulton County on Tuesday for the murders of four women in a 16 March attack on two spas in the city of Atlanta.
The 22-year-old is facing separate charges related to an attack on a spa in Cherokee County the same day that left another four people dead.
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty and file hate crime charges against the man accused of shooting dead eight people, including six women of Asian origin, in attacks on three spas in the southern US state of Georgia.
A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was on Tuesday indicted on murder charges by two separate grand juries, and one prosecutor filed notice that she would also seek hate crime charges and the death penalty.
A Fulton County grand jury indicted Robert Aaron Long, 22, in the March 16 slayings of Suncha Kim, 69; Park Soon-chung, 74; Hyun-jung Grant, 51; and Yue Yong-ae, 63.
Another grand jury in Cherokee County indicted Long for a separate shooting there that resulted in the killings of Xiaojie “Emily” Tan
Hate crime charges sought in Georgia spa shootings
Posted : 2021-05-12 10:51
Updated : 2021-05-12 10:51
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announces she will seek the death penalty in the Atlanta area spa shootings at a news conference in Atlanta, Ga., May 11. Reuters-Yonhap
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty and file hate crime charges against the man accused of shooting dead eight people, including six women of Asian origin, in attacks on three spas in the southern U.S. state of Georgia.
Robert Aaron Long, 22, was indicted by a grand jury in Georgia s Fulton County on Tuesday for the murders of four women in a March 16 attack on two spas in the city of Atlanta.