8 killed in 3 shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlor, spas
Tue, March 16, 2021, 9:45 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/3-dead-shooting-georgia-massage-234100997.html
"Eight people were shot and killed at three massage parlors in two Georgia counties Tuesday, Atlanta-area officials said.
The shootings have not been linked by authorities.
The suspect in one of those shootings, which killed four people about 5 p.m. at a Cherokee County massage parlor northwest of Atlanta, was in custody Tuesday night, sheriff's Capt. Jay Baker said.
The suspect, Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested in Crisp County, south of Macon. A motive is not known.
"We do not know if this is the suspect from the incident in Atlanta," Baker told reporters.
"Nothing's going to be ruled out," he said later. "We're conducting a multiple homicide investigation. So, wherever the evidence leads us, that's where the investigators will go."
Cherokee County sheriff's deputies responded to the massage parlor and found multiple gunshot victims, Baker said.
Two were dead at the scene, and three others were injured, he said. The injured were taken to a hospital, where two later died. One person remains hospitalized.
About 45 minutes after the Cherokee County shooting and 30 miles away, police in Atlanta responded to a report of a robbery on Piedmont Road in the northeast part of the city.
Officials discovered three women dead from apparent gunshot wounds, and while on scene, received a call of shots fired across the street, where a woman was found dead inside that business, Atlanta police said.
Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said described one location as a spa, and another as an aromatherapy spa.
After the Cherokee County shooting, the sheriff's office released photos of a suspect being sought and asked anyone with information to call 911."