A suspect is in custody after at least eight people were killed and two more were injured in a series of shootings Tuesday at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area that may or may not be connected, police said.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said that Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Ga., was identified as the suspect in a shooting at Young’s Asian Massage Parlor near Acworth, where four people were killed and one was injured, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Long was captured in Crisp County, about 150 miles south of Atlanta, after he was seen on surveillance footage wearing a red and black hoodie and driving a black Hyundai SUV.
The shooting took place at around 5 p.m., with two people declared dead at the scene and two more dying after being hospitalized for injuries.
Less than two hours later, four more people were killed in shootings at two separate massage parlors located near one another on Piedmont Road.
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Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee sheriff’s office said that “it does appear it’s the same suspect” in all three shootings.
Atlanta police said the four victims on Piedmont Road appeared to be Asian women and all three spas are primarily staffed by Asians.
They did not state whether the victims were employees or customers at the spas.
Cherokee County Sheriff’s representative Howard Baker told CNN deputies were called to Young’s Asian Massage for reports of a shooting on Tuesday afternoon.
Less than an hour later, Atlanta police said they responded to a robbery call at the Gold Massage Spa on Piedmont Road and around the same time responded to a call at Aroma Therapy spa across the street.
The surrounding roads were shut down and the shopping center that housed two of the spas was closed to the public as investigators searched for evidence.
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What color is the killer?
Acting on a stereotype of Asian owned massage parlors?
Every damn article i’ve seen on this shooting, seems to open with “A WHITE SHOOTER”..
YET any time it’s a black felon doing the crime, YOU RARELY SEE THEM EVER mention it… If at all.
The problem is, this nutcase who killed these women, will ignite the Fake News and give them fodder, to say all of us “Whites” hate the Asian people and that we are all “white supremacists”. The Fake News will also say that this killer is a Trump supporter. My sympathy to the women that were killed by this nutcase.
Racism against Asians? Hardly new. DEMOCRAT President Franklin Roosevelt seized the property of hundreds of thousands of AMERICAN citizens because they were of Japanese descent and put these Americans into concentration camps. In impoverished neighborhoods where merchants and major store were driven out, Korean owners who worked hard succeeded in adapting in such areas where the denizens did not and these Asian Americans were then set up for resentment by the community and their democrat leadership. And today liberal colleges are putting quotas on the amount of Asians applying for advanced courses because they and whites dominate the field. The standards in the mean time have to be lowered in order for the more “oppressed” and victims du jour to be able to fill those spots. Hatred toward achievement and work ethic is in place here—the same as it is toward what produces conservatism, not racism.
Then you got the riots of the 80s and 90s which pushed for “rooftop koreans” to defend their stores.. AND THEY WERE The ones the dems felt were the crooks. NOT THE rioters and looters.
Another new flash……98% of news reporter’s have heads stuck in rectum, can only see crime if it is light
Here we have slow Joe coming to Atlanta for this. The democrats are up in arms over this killing and the white guy. But what about the exfelon who killed his girlfriend family over her stimulus check ??? Nothing from the democrats over this ?? He also was an ex-felon who had a gun. Maybe Joe needs to go to Chicago ,Baltimore and Chicago over killing with guns !!
The fake news waits with anticipation for this type of crime to happen and then they are elated when it does, to further their hate for white people. I wonder how many white men are actually in charge of these fake news outlets. Bet it’s more then anyone would guess.
Makes yo wonder what the hell happened to them, that they hate their OWN race that damn much!