A Georgia prosecutor on Tuesday said the man accused of fatally shooting eight people at Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian women, had committed hate crimes and that she would seek the death penalty against him, court documents showed.
The 22-year-old suspect, Robert Aaron Long, was indicted on murder charges for the deaths of four women in Fulton County, Georgia, as well as aggravated assault and domestic terrorism charges. He is accused of killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent, in a shooting spree on March 16 at three day spas.
Long has also been charged with four counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault in Cherokee County, about 40 miles no…
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