The alleged gunman who shot three Atlanta-area spas killed eight people, including six Asian women, some of whom may have been “persistent” in some places and had “sex addiction”, it was revealed on Wednesday.
Officers told officers during a press conference that 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long did not indicate in an interview with investigators that the shooting spree was racially motivated on Tuesday – instead he suggested he pick those salons, With whom he was familiar. According to WSB-TV.
“We were able to interview him with the Atlanta Police Department and the FBI,” Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said. “They made indicators that they had some issues, possibly sexual addiction, and some of these places may have been used frequently in the past.”
However, the police said that they are still not ruling out the possibility that it was a hate crime.
Officials said Long of Woodstock was arrested in connection with the shootings that began Tuesday evening at the Young’s Asian Massage Parlor in Ackworth.
Officials said five people were shot at the spa, four of whom later died.
About an hour later, police found three women dead from apparent gunfire at the Gold Spa near Buckhead suburb of Atlanta.
Authorities said when they reacted to the scene, they received a street call at the aromatherapy spa and another woman was shot and killed, officials said.
The violence was the latest in a wave of attacks against Asian Americans since the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic.
With post wires
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