Remembering the victims of the Atlanta spa shootings 2 years later
State lawmakers joined the families of the victims and members of the Asian-American community in Downtown Atlanta to mark two years since eight people were killed in a series of shootings at spas in Cherokee County and Atlanta.
ATLANTA – The man accused of going on a multi-county rampage targeting Asian spas was in Fulton County court on Thursday.
Robert Aaron Long still faces charges in the Atlanta spa shootings in Fulton County. Eight people, including six Asian women were murdered on March 16, 2021.
Robert Aaron Long pleads guilty in Cherokee County shootings
Long plead guilty to the deadly shooting at Young’s Asian Massage Parlor near Woodstock where four people were killed and a fifth injured.
Eight people total were killed at three spa locations in Cherokee County and Atlanta on March 16, 2021. (Supplied)
It was there that 22-year-old Robert Aaron Long admitted to shooting and killing four people — Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; Delaina Yaun, 33; and Paul Michels, 54 — and seriously injured Elcias Hernandez Ortiz.
He told investigators that he was drunk and was planning to go to the massage parlor due to a sex addiction before shooting himself.
“My hope is that I would hate myself enough at that point and possess enough self-loathing to end my life,” Long told the court. “I was scared of killing myself. I wanted to try to overcome that so I could. So, I went up to the liquor store.”
Atlanta Spa Shooting suspect serving life without parole
Two years after shootings at three spas in Cherokee County and Atlanta that killed eight people, including six Asian Americans, the man who claims responsibility for at least one of the shootings remains behind bars.
After pleading guilty to 23 charges, Long was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Cherokee County district attorney, citing the racial diversity of the victims there — two of whom were…
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