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. WOODSTOCK, Ga. — The man accused of killing four people and injuring another person at a Cherokee County massage business has been caught.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long, 21, was captured in Crisp County, which is about two and half hours away from the shooting scene.
Channel 2′s Chris Jose is working to confirm more details on how he was apprehended.
The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at a massage business off Bells Ferry Road and Highway 92.
The four victims killed and victim injured in the shooting have not been identified.
Lanes were blocked on Highway 92 at Bells Ferry Road, but the road is starting to reopen.
Atlanta police are also investigating two spa shootings that killed four people and injured two others. There is no confirmation that the shootings are related.
https://abc7.com/8-dead-in-shootings...tody/10425158/
ATLANTA, Georgia -- Shootings at two spas in Atlanta and one in the suburbs Tuesday evening left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said.
The attacks began around 5 p.m., when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor in a strip mall near a rural area in Acworth, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta, Cherokee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker said. Two people died at the scene and three were transported to a hospital where two of them also died, Baker said.
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No one was arrested at the scene.
Around 5:50 p.m., police in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, responding to a call of a robbery in progress, found three women dead from apparent gunshot wounds at Gold Spa. While they were at that scene, they learned of a call reporting shots fired at another spa across the street, Aromatherapy Spa, and found a woman who appeared to have been shot dead inside the business.
"It appears that they may be Asian," Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said in statement Wednesday that its diplomats in Atlanta have confirmed from police that four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent. The ministry said the office of its Consulate General in Atlanta is trying to confirm the nationality of the women.
The killings came amid a recent wave of attacks against Asian Americans that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the United States.
"Our entire family is praying for the victims of these horrific acts of violence," Gov. Brian Kemp said Tuesday evening on Twitter.
A man suspected in the Acworth shooting was captured by surveillance video pulling up to the business around 4:50 p.m. Tuesday, minutes before the attack, authorities said. Baker said the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, was taken into custody in Crisp County, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Atlanta.
Baker said they believe Long is also the suspect in the Atlanta shootings.
Police said video footage showed the suspect's vehicle in the area of the Atlanta spas about the time of those attacks as well. That, as well as other video evidence, "suggests it is extremely likely our suspect is the same as Cherokee County's, who is in custody," Atlanta police said in a statement. Atlanta and Cherokee County authorities were working to confirm the cases are related.
FBI spokesman Kevin Rowson said the agency was assisting Atlanta and Cherokee County authorities in the investigation.
Crisp County Sheriff Billy Hancock said in a video posted on Facebook that his deputies and state troopers were notified around 8 p.m. that a murder suspect out of north Georgia was headed toward their county. Deputies and troopers set up along the interstate and "made contact with the suspect," who was driving a 2007 black Hyundai Tucson, around 8:30 p.m., he said.
A state trooper performed a PIT, or pursuit intervention technique, maneuver, "which caused the vehicle to spin out of control," Hancock said. Long was then taken into custody "without incident" and was being held in the Crisp County jail for Cherokee County authorities who were expected to arrive soon to continue their investigation.
Due to the shootings, Atlanta police said they dispatched officers to check nearby similar businesses and increased patrols in the area.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news...5-9a265b51d64dATLANTA — A crime spree across metro Atlanta left eight people dead and another person hurt Tuesday evening at three spas.
Wednesday morning, Atlanta Police and the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office outlined a timeline of how the events unfolded.
4:55 p.m. | Young's Asians Massage deadly shooting
"We got a call about 4:55 yesterday afternoon of shooting in the Bells Ferry/ [Highway] 92 area of Southwest Cherokee County. Our deputies responded and found multiple gunshot victims," Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said.
Deputies said a total of five people were shot at the Young's Asians Massage. Four people died and the fifth person is still in the hospital.
Reynolds said they used video to quickly identify a suspect and posted photos on their social media accounts.
"Shortly thereafter, we were contacted by members of the family indicating that that may be their their son," Reynolds said.
The suspect was later identified as Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man.
5:47 p.m. | Shootings at Atlanta spa locations
"On yesterday at 5:47, our units responded to 1916 Piedmont Road on a robbery call," Atlanta Police Interim Chief Rodney Bryant said.
When officers arrived, they said they found three people who had been shot and killed at Gold Spa.
"While investigating that location, they received another call at 1907 Piedmont Road, where they found another female shot inside that location," he added.
Gold Spa is located across the street from Aromatherapy Spa, the location of the last shooting.
Officials stand in front of a massage parlor after a shooting, Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left multiple people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Bryant said they then connected with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.
"Immediately, the sheriff and I and the chief in that jurisdiction started having conversations, trying to bring things together," Bryant said.
Catching the suspect Robert Aaron Long
Reynolds said Long's family coming forward helped them move the case along quickly, leading to his arrest.
"We met with them and I was there speaking with the family," he said. "They're very distraught and they were very helpful in in this apprehension. We were able to track his phone."
That move led deputies to alert Crisp County authorities of his possible movement.
Reynolds said Crisp County Sheriff Billy Hancock coordinated with Georgia State Patrol to apprehend the suspect.
Credit: Crisp County Sheriff's Office
GSP Lt. Mark Rowley said they had a trooper monitoring traffic on I-75 South.
"The trooper observed the suspect's vehicle traveling south. He started following the vehicle and waited for backup, which included two other Georgia state troopers, as well as the sheriff of this county and some of his deputies," Rowley said. "They initiated the traffic stop and then immediately pitted the vehicle. After the vehicle was pitted, the suspect was taken into custody without further incident and transported to the county jail."
Authorities said a 9mm gun was recovered during the traffic stop.
The possible motive
Bryant said his office has received numerous calls from people asking if this was a hate crime. Many of the victims - six of the eight - were Asian women. However, right now, they said they are still early in the investigation.
"So, we cannot make that determination at this moment. Again, we are very early in this investigation. Even though we've made an arrest, there's still a lot more work to be done," he said.
Authorities said they did interview the suspect and he claimed it wasn't racially motivated.
"He apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex addiction, and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places, and it's a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate," said Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.
He also said the suspect claimed he was planning to go to Florida to do more acts in that state.
"It sounds to me like these locations, he sees them as an outlet for him, for some things he shouldn't be doing, and an issue with porn, and that he was attempting to take out that temptation," he said.
Long's first appearance in court is set for Thursday.
A hearing is on Thursday Note thats been changed to 8 people killed in the shooting.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...timsHere's What We Know About The Victims Of The Spa Shootings Near Atlanta
One of the eight people killed, most of whom were women of Asian descent, offered free showers and meals to people who were homeless. "She had so much more life to live," one friend said.
A mother of two who went to get a massage after working all day at a Waffle House was one of the eight people killed by a shooter who attacked three Atlanta-area spas on Tuesday ? just one story to emerge as more about the victims becomes known.
Officials identified the three other people who were killed alongside 33-year-old Delaina Ashley Yaun at Young's Asian Massage in Acworth as Xiaojie Tan, 49, Daoyou Feng, 44, and Paul Andre Michels, 54.
The other four victims, all of whom are Asian women, were shot and killed at two Atlanta spas across the street from each other. Officials have not identified them publicly, but a spokesperson with the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Atlanta told BuzzFeed News that four of the victims are of Korean descent.
Police say they have not yet determined if the shootings were racially motivated, even though the suspect told investigators he targeted the businesses ? which are marketed as Asian or international spas that promote their female and Asian employees ? because he viewed them as outlets for his sex addiction.
But many have pointed to the hypersexualization of and racism against Asian women in the suspect?s decision to target the spas, and have criticized law enforcement?s hesitancy to call the shootings racially motivated.
BuzzFeed News is still working to learn more about the people who were killed in the shootings, including Feng and Tan, who was the registered owner of Young's Asian Massage.
For years, Yaun worked at the Waffle House just a few stores down from Tan's massage spa while raising her two children, 13-year-old Mayson and 8-month-old Mia.
"She strived to be a great, great person, and she was," said John Beck, Yaun's manager of three years who became close friends with the family.
He described how Yaun would feed people who were homeless when they came into the Waffle House. She'd also bring them home to offer showers and clean clothes.
"You don't find people like that," Beck told BuzzFeed News. "Her heart was so big. She loved people and she loved her children, she was a very, very special person to me."
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Delaina Yaun
Beck said Yaun had headed out to get a massage at Young's Asian Massage with her husband, Mario, after work when the shooting took place. The pair had married in 2020, a second chance for Yaun after an earlier difficult relationship.
"She got pregnant out of nowhere, got married, blessing after blessing, she was so happy," Beck said. "She had so much more life to live."
"I had every intention to see her this week, I can't even say goodbye to my friend," he added.
Cristy Lynn McGouirk, who is listed as Yaun's cousin on Facebook, posted a tribute on Tuesday evening.
"Your heart of gold, kindness and pure love will never be forgotten," McGourik wrote. "Your legacy lives on, you have touched so many peoples lives, you were one of the most dedicated women I have ever known. Strong willed, love and dedication, is what you were made of."
Two additional names released. Two more not yet released.
Julie Park
Hyeon Jeong Park
also:
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Also https://religiondispatches.org/dont-...NpeFV2GTJXoTMo
I want to be clear. As Joshua Grubbs, an assistant professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University who has published research on religion and attitudes toward sex told RD, “Sex addiction is simply not a credible defense for mass murder.” One of the most significant conclusions Grubbs’ research points to, however, is that conservative Christian men are prone to believe that they have pornography or sex “addictions,” even when they do not. Before he was apprehended by police, Robert Aaron Long was reportedly on his way to target the porn industry in Florida for violence similar to what he perpetrated in Georgia.
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One was new mother taking a rare break from caring for her baby girl. Another was an Army veteran who installed security systems in the Atlanta area.
They were among eight people killed Tuesday in shootings at three metro Atlanta massage parlors. Police have charged a 21-year-old man with the slayings.
Seven of the slain were women, and six of them were of Asian descent. Authorities have not released all of the victims’ names but did identify 33-year-old Delaina Ashley Yaun, 54-year-old Paul Andre Michels, 44-year-old Daoyou Feng and 49-year-old Xiaojie Tan, who owned one of the massage businesses.
Here is a look at some of those who died in the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since 2019.
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DELAINA ASHLEY YAUN
It was planned as a day for Yaun to relax.
Yaun and her husband arranged for someone to care for their 8-month daughter while they headed to Youngs Asian Massage Parlor. Family members said the couple were first-time customers, eager for a chance to unwind.
They were in separate rooms inside the spa when the gunman opened fire. Yaun was killed. Her husband escaped unharmed.
“They’re innocent. They did nothing wrong,” Yaun’s weeping mother, Margaret Rushing, told WAGA-TV. “I just don’t understand why he took my daughter.”
Yaun’s husband could hear the gunfire inside the spa but was helpless to save his wife, said Dana Toole, Yaun’s sister.
“He’s taking it hard,” Toole said. “When you’re in a room and gunshots are flying, what do you do?”
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PAUL ANDRE MICHELS
Michels owned a business installing security systems, a trade he learned after moving to the Atlanta area more than 25 years ago. He’d been talking about switching to a new line of work.
Michels never got to settle on a career change. He was fatally shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor along with three others.
“From what I understand, he was at the spa that day doing some work for them,” said Michels’ younger brother, John Michels of Commerce, Michigan.
Paul Michels also might have been talking with the spa’s owner about how the business operates, his brother said, because he had been thinking about opening a spa himself.
“His age caught up to him. You get to a point where you get tired of climbing up and down ladders,” John Michels said. “He was actually looking to start his own massage spa. That’s what he was talking about last year.”
Paul Michels grew up in Detroit in a large family where he was the seventh of nine children. His brother John was No. 8.
Though they were born 2 1/2 years apart, “he was basically my twin,” John Michels said. Both enlisted in the Army after high school, with Paul joining the infantry.
A few years after leaving the military, Paul followed his brother to the Atlanta area in 1995 for a job doing low-voltage electrical work, installing phones and security systems. He also met his wife, Bonnie, and they were married more than 20 years.
“He was a good, hard-working man who would do what he could do to help people,” John Michels said. “He’d loan you money if you needed it sometimes. You never went away from his place hungry.”
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Hyun J. Grant GFM -https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory...t-my-brother-iThe Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office identified the remaining victims as Soon C. Park, 74, Hyun J. Grant, 51, Suncha Kim, 69, and Yong A. Yue, 63, according to a statement.
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Atlanta spa shooter Robert Aaron Long expected to get plea deal in 4 of 8 killings, prosecutor says
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The man charged with killing eight people, including six Asian women, at three spas near Atlanta in March is expected to reach a plea deal in one of his two cases.
Robert Aaron Long, 22, is charged with four counts of murder in Fulton County and four counts of murder in Cherokee County.
Fulton County’s district attorney expects Long to get a plea deal in the Cherokee County case, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. District Attorney Fani Willis said she’s been told to expect the Cherokee County case to end following a hearing scheduled for July 27.
“In my world that means they’ve reached a deal,” Willis told the AJC.
Willis filed a motion Tuesday to have Long transferred to Fulton County immediately following that hearing, according to local NBC affiliate WXIA.
No matter the deal Long gets in Cherokee County, he will still face the Fulton County case, where he is charged with four counts of murder, domestic terrorism and assault with a deadly weapon. Willis said in May that she will seek the death penalty and hate-crime charges.
Cherokee County District Attorney Shannon Wallace’s office said she is “ethically prohibited from discussing any type of plea negotiation,” the AJC reported.
Police say Long began his March 16 rampage at Youngs Asian Massage in Cherokee County, where he killed Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; Delaina Yaun, 33, and Paul Michels, 54, and injured 30-year-old Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz.
He then traveled to Fulton County and fatally shot Suncha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung Grant, 51, and Yong Ae Yue, 63, at two different spas, according to cops.
Long was arrested later that night in Crisp County, about 125 miles south of Atlanta, following a short police chase and has been detained in Cherokee County for most of the past four months.
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