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    Death Penalty Trial Delayed for Robert Aaron Long in 2021 GA Spree Killings


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    Suspect in deadly Atlanta shooting spree stopped by trooper with PIT maneuver: report

    At least six of the eight victims were Asian women, authorities said

    By Brie Stimson
    Fox News

    The Georgia State Patrol used a tactical PIT (pursuit intervention technique) maneuver Tuesday evening on a freeway to stop the one suspect after three deadly shootings in and around Atlanta left at least eight people dead and sparked fears that the killings could have been racially motivated, according to a report.

    Robert Aaron Long, 21, was taken into custody without incident, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Long was reportedly driving south on Interstate 75 in Crisp County when he was outmaneuvered by the state trooper.

    Investigators said they have just begun the investigation but said the first shooting occurred at about 5 p.m. at Young's Asian Massage in the town of Ackworth, in Cherokee County. Two victims died at the scene and three were transported to a hospital where two later died.

    Less than an hour after the first shooting, police in the Buckhead neighborhood, in northeast Atlanta, responded to a call of a robbery in progress and found three women dead from apparent gunshot wounds at Gold Spa.

    While at that scene, police received a call of shots fired at another spa across the street, Aromatherapy Spa, and found a woman who appeared to have been shot dead inside the business.

    At least six of the eight victims were Asian women, authorities said. While officials said it’s too early to say if race played a role, the shootings come at a time when anti-Asian crimes in the U.S. have spiked.

    At least four of the women were of Korean descent, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.

    There have only been two homicide investigations in Cherokee County in the last two years, according to the Journal-Constitution.

    Crisp County officials took Long into custody around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 30 minutes after the county became aware of his location.

    The PIT maneuver, which "caused the vehicle to spin out of control," according to Crisp County Sheriff Billy Hancock, is often deployed to end pursuits.

    Long was taken into custody and has been charged with murder.

    "It is extremely likely our suspect is the same as Cherokee County’s," Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Chafee said based on video evidence of the three shootings.

    Police said video footage showed Long’s vehicle in the area of the Atlanta spas about the time of those attacks after his SUV was seen on surveillance video pulling up to the Acworth spa. Atlanta and Cherokee County authorities were working to confirm the cases are related.

    Gov. Brian Kemp tweeted that his "family is praying for the victims of these horrific acts of violence. We deeply appreciate the quick apprehension of a suspect" by the Georgia Department of Public Safety, which oversees the state patrol, "in coordination with local and federal law enforcement."

    FBI spokesman Kevin Rowson said the agency was assisting Atlanta and Cherokee County authorities in the investigation.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-s...ending-manhunt
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    Robert Aaron Long: Atlanta area massage parlors shooting suspect may have ‘sexual addiction’

    By jeremy Gray
    AL.com

    After eight people, many of them of Asian descent, were killed Tuesday night in a nearly hourlong series of shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, police apprehended a suspect: Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Ga.

    A Georgia state trooper used the pursuit intervention technique — also known as the PIT maneuver -- as Long was driving south in a black 2007 Hyundai Tucson on Interstate 75 in Crisp County, Ga., Fox News reported.

    Surveillance video recorded a man pulling up to Youngs Asian Massage Parlor near Woodstock, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, about 10 minutes before an attack there, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker said.

    Two people died at the scene, and three were taken to a hospital where two died, Baker said.

    About an hour later, police responding to a call about a robbery found three women dead from apparent gunshot wounds at Gold Spa near Atlanta’s Buckhead area.

    While there, the officers learned of a call reporting shots fired at another spa across the street, Aromatherapy Spa, and found another woman apparently shot dead.

    Video evidence “suggests it is extremely likely our suspect is the same as Cherokee County’s, who is in custody,” Atlanta police said in a statement.

    Few details about the suspect have emerged and it was not known if Long, 21, ever went to the parlors where the shootings occurred.

    Authorities said he was planning to go to Florida in a plot to attack “some type of porn industry.”

    “He made indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past,” said Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds. He said it was too early to tell if it was racially motivated. “But the indicators right now are it may not be. It may be targets of opportunity. Again, we believe that he frequented these places in the past and maybe have been lashing out.”

    Many suspects who commit mass shootings have a history of violence against women.

    Reynolds also said Long bought the gun he used in the shootings only hours earlier, AJC reported.

    That report continued:

    “During his interview, he gave no indicators that this was racially motivated,” Reynolds said. “We asked him that specifically and the answer was no.”

    But Long did take responsibility for the shootings, Capt. Jay Baker with the Cherokee sheriff’s office said Wednesday. Long, according to Baker, said the massage parlors represented a “temptation he wanted to eliminate.”

    “Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Baker said.

    Reynolds said Scott bought a gun from a Cherokee shop prior to the shootings. A 9 mm firearm was found when Long was later arrested.

    Little is known of Long’s life before the shootings.

    “Pizza, guns, drums, music, family, and God. This pretty much sums up my life. It’s a pretty good life,” read the tagline on an Instagram account that appeared to belong to Long, The Daily Beast reported.

    That report continued:

    “Long’s family did not respond to calls for comment. His youth pastor at the Crabapple First Baptist Church confirmed he was the suspect and said elders would be releasing a statement.

    A 2018 video on the Crabapple Facebook page features Long discussing his Christian journey toward baptism.

    “As many of you may remember, when I was 8 years old I thought I was becoming a Christian, and got baptized during that time. And I remember a lot of the reason for that is a lot of my friends in my Sunday school class were doing that,” Long says in the clip.

    “And after that time, there wasn’t any fruit from the root that is our salvation.”

    He goes on to say that when he was in seventh grade he attended a youth group and a speaker was discussing the biblical story of the prodigal son.

    “The son goes off and squanders all that he has and lives completely for himself and then, when he finds he’s wanting to eat pig food, he realized there’s something wrong and he goes back to his father and his father runs back to him and embraces him. And by the grace of God I was able to draw the connection there and realize this is a story between what happened with me and God. I ran away living completely for myself, and he still wants me, and so that’s when I was saved.”

    The elders of the church released a statement to Heavy.com, saying they were “grieved” and “heartbroken.”

    “We are grieved to hear the tragic news about the multiple deaths in the Atlanta area. We are heartbroken for all involved,” the statement said. “We grieve for the victims and their families, and we continue to pray for them. Moreover, we are distraught for the Long family and continue to pray for them as well.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

    https://www.al.com/news/2021/03/robe...g-suspect.html
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    This case is a tragic example of racial politics. These women are only in the headlines because of their skin color and not of the horrible lives they were obviously living before Long murdered them. These news reports won't focus on the dodgy characters that these kind's of dens attract but will attack white people when we know fully known that if the shooter wasn't white nobody in power would care.

    These women deserved better then society gave them and even in death they are still being used. Absolutely disgusting what's happening here, god have mercy on these poor women.
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    Robert Aaron Long: Parents of accused Atlanta gunman used tracker on his car to help police catch him


    Police said without the tracker it may have taken much longer to apprehend the alleged shooter

    The Independant

    The parents of the man accused of shooting and killing eight people at massage parlours near Atlanta helped police identify their son and track him down.

    Robert Aaron Long, 21, has been charged with multiple counts of murder after allegedly shooting and killing eight people - primarily Asian women - at three massage parlours he reportedly frequented in Georgia.


    His parents, upon seeing his photo in surveillance video shared by police, turned him in, and helped police find him using a tracker that had been placed in his car.


    Georgia Police captain Jay Baker said he was unsure of the reason for the tracker, or if Mr Long was aware he was being tracked.


    Police used the tracker to stop the gunman in Crisp County, about 240 km (150 miles) south of Atlanta. He was apparently headed to Florida to continue his shooting spree.

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    Death penalty is being considered for Robert Aaron Long. Will update accordingly.
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    You know the feds are just praying that they don't find any anti Asian posts on his social media. Then they don't have to explain why they are not seeking the DP for a hate crime. The all ready have to justify not seeking the DP again for the Boston Bomber.
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    They'd probably love to find an anti Asian post so they can frame this as racial violence and blame whitey. Never mind the fact that white people aren't the perpetrators behind the vast majority of violent interracial crimes committed against Asian Americans. (Although intraracial is always more common than interracial).

    They'll easily justify not seeking the DP and they don't care - they're blatant hypocrites.
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    Of the two Halfarce will be more likely to see the row. Can GA bring Long under state custody and seek it?
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    The question is, will AG Merrick Garland seek the federal death penalty under the Biden Administration or the State of Georgia?
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    If they won’t seek it for the Boston Bomber how can they seek it for this dude? GA is a safer bet and even at that it’s hard.

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