The 21-year-old was suspected of killing eight people – six of them Asian women – three according to a report by Massage Parlor in Metro Atlanta, holding a gun and a passion for God.
Robert Aaron Long of Woodstock, Georgia, about 150 miles south of Atlanta, was arrested Tuesday night without incident and charged with murder, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Information about Long is rare, but Daily Beast told A tagline on an Instagram account that related to the suspect said: “Pizza, guns, drums, music, family and God. This gives rise to my life too much. This is a very good life. “
A student who graduated from Long With Sequoia High School in 2017, told the news outlet on condition of anonymity: “He looked very innocent and it wouldn’t be either.
“He was reclusive and did not seem violent from what I remembered. He was a hunter and his father was a youth minister or pastor. He was big in religion,” the former classmate said.
According to The Daily Beast, the Christian video toward baptism is discussed in a 2018 video on the Facebook page of Crapple First Baptist Church.
“Many of you may remember, when I was eight years old, I felt that I was becoming a Christian, and was baptized during that time. And I remember that one of the reasons is that many of my friends in my Sunday school class were doing this, ”says Long in the video.
“And after that time, there was no fruit from the root that is our salvation,” he says, adding that as a seventh-grader he joined a youth group and a speaker discussing the Bible story of prodigal sons.
“The son stops and he endures everything and he lives completely for himself and then, when he finds out that he wants to eat the pig’s food, he realizes that there is something wrong and that he is his father. K goes back to him and his father goes back to him and hugs him. “He says as per the report.
“And by the grace of God I was able to make a relationship there and feel what has happened to me and God. I ran away from living solely for myself, and he still wants me, and so when I was saved. “
In a statement, church elders Told heavy dot com: “We are saddened to hear the sad news about many deaths in the Atlanta area. We are all involved in this.
“We mourn for the victims and their families, and we continue to pray for them. In addition, we are distraught for the long family and continue to pray for them as well.
The suspect’s family did not respond to The Daily Beast’s call for comment.
Officials said Long is a suspect in a shootout at Young’s Asian Massage Parlor in Cherokee County that killed four people and injured one person – and two more in Northeast Atlanta, with four more fatalities.
Officials said the victims, whose names have not yet been released, include six Asian women, a white woman and a white man.
“It appears that it is the same suspect,” said Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office.
Police insisted that it was too early to cite motive in the bloodbred, but the attacks came amid a wave of targeted violence against the Asian-American community.
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