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Authorities said they do not yet know of a motive in the killings, which left four women — all of Asian descent — dead inside two businesses across the street from each other in Atlanta; another four people, including two Asian women, were killed and a person was wounded at a spa in nearby Cherokee County. The FBI is working on the case with local authorities.
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Police arrested Robert Aaron Long, 21, after a brief manhunt and said he is the suspect in all three shootings. His family lives in a one-story, three-bedroom house in Woodstock, a middle-class, majority White suburb about 30 miles north of downtown Atlanta. The killings come as Asian American hate crimes have spiked. Since the start of the pandemic, Asian Americans reported nearly 3,800 hate-related incidents.
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The New York Police Department’s counterterrorism unit tweeted that it was “monitoring the shooting of Asian Americans in Georgia” and that it would deploy “to our great Asian communities across the city out of an abundance of caution.” Seattle’s mayor and chief of police said the city would also take “additional steps to protect our Asian American neighbors,” including additional patrols.