Eight people — including six Asian women — were killed in the shooting on Tuesday.
As Asian communities across the country grapple with the rise in anti-Asian violence, eight people — including six Asian women — were fatally shot by a single gunman at three different spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday. In a span of 45 minutes,21-year-old suspect Robert Aaron Long killed multiple people at Young’s Asian Massage in a suburb north of Atlanta, and at two more businesses — Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa — just across the street from each other in the city. While information about the victims is limited, the names of those killed at Young’s Asian Massage were 49-year-old Xiaojie Tan,33-year-old Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez,44-year-old Daoyou Feng, and 54-year-old Paul Andre Michels; a fifth person,30-year-old Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Meanwhile, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry officials say the four victims at Aromatherapy and Gold spas were of Korean descent, including Julia Park and Hyun-jeong Park Grant, according to the Los Angeles Times and the Korea Times Atlanta; the other two have yet to be named. Here’s what we know about them so far: Xiaojie “Emily” Tan Tan,49, was the mother of a recent graduate from the University of Georgia. She was a licensed massage therapist and the owner of Young’s Asian Massage, along with other businesses in the area, including another spa and a tanning salon, according to state records.
