Police have identified at least four of the eight people killed in a shooting spree at spas in the US state of Georgia.
According to the police, those killed include: Ashley Yaun, 33; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Xiaojie Yan, 49; and Daoyou Feng, 44.
Elcias R Hernandez-Ortiz was identified by the police as sustaining injury.
A 21-year old US man, Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Georgia, the police said, has admitted carrying out the mass shootings and killings.
At least six Asian women were killed, the police told a news conference on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.
Briefing the media in a televised address monitored by African Entertainment, Cherokee County Sheriff, Frank Reynolds, revealed that the suspect may have been a patron.
He said the suspect has claimed to have a “sex addiction”.
According to him, the suspect denied that the killings were motivated by race.
The suspect was arrested in Crisp County, about 150 miles (240km) south of Atlanta
Police had earlier announced that the fatal shootings happened at a massage parlour in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta, and two spas in the city itself.
Following the shootings on Tuesday evening, March 16, 2021,
South Korea confirmed that four of the victims were Koreans.
African Entertainment understands the first shooting took place at about 17:00 (21:00 GMT) on Tuesday at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor in Acworth, Cherokee County and Sheriff’s office spokesman, Capt Jay Baker, reportedly indicated that two people died at the scene and three were taken to hospital, where two more died. Those victims were confirmed to be two Asian women, a white woman and a white man, and that a Hispanic man had been wounded.
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