What we know about them

One was a newlywed bride getting a massage with her husband. Another was an immigrant from China who proudly built her business from nothing. The youngest was 33. The oldest was 74.

In three deadly shootings Tuesday at Atlantaarea spas, eight people lost their lives, leaving behind family members, such as an infant daughter, and friends, including longtime customers.

Seven of the eight killed were women. Six people were of Asian descent. Two were White.

Here is what we know about those who died in the shootings.

Xiaojie Tan

Thursday would have been Xiaojie Tan's 50th birthday.

Instead, Tan, of Kennesaw, Ga., was remembered by her friends who left flowers at her business, Young's Asian Massage, the scene of a shooting that killed her and three others.

Tan, or Emily as she was known by some friends, was dedicated to her job and her daughter, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia.

Her daughter, Jami Webb, 29, told USA Today that her mother was her best friend.

"She did everything for me and for the family," Webb told the newspaper. "She provided everything. She worked every day, 12 hours a day, so that me and our family would have a better life."

Tan sometimes hosted

Lunar New Year and Fourth of July parties with food and fireworks at her spa.

Delaina Yaun

Delaina Yaun, 33, and her husband had decided to treat themselves Tuesday. They booked a couples massage and were in separate rooms when the gunman entered and started shooting, according to Delayne Davis, a relative. Yaun was killed. Her husband escaped.

"They were just taking an afternoon together," Davis said.

The past year had been momentous for Yaun. Over the summer she gave birth to her second child, a daughter. Shortly after, she and her husband, Mario Gonzalez, were wed in a small ceremony.

Paul Andre Michels

Paul Andre Michels, a 54-year-old handyman at Young's Asian Massage, was an Army veteran, family members told news outlets.

Michels, who grew up in Detroit, came from a large family. He was the seventh of nine children.

Michels had recently found the job at the spa, his friend Kikiana Whidby told CBS 46.

Daoyou Feng

Daoyou Feng, 44, began working at Young's Asian Massage in recent months, according to Tan's friend Hynson.

She was kind and quiet, he said.

Yong Ae Yue

Yong Ae Yue, 63, was a mother, according to her family's attorney Bjay Pak.

Her sons, in a statement shared by Pak, said, "We are devastated by the loss of our beloved mother, and words cannot adequately describe our grief.”

One son, Robert Peterson, 38, told the Atlanta Journal-constitution she was laid off amid the pandemic and excited to return to work. She frequently spent her time cooking Korean food, visiting friends and watching movies and soap operas or reading.

Hyun Jung Grant Working long hours at Gold Spa in Atlanta, Hyun Jung Grant, 51, was a single mother who did all she could to support her sons, according to son Randy Park, 23.

Park told the Daily Beast that Grant loved dancing, electronic music and her sons. He said she hid her job from them, saying instead that she worked at a makeup store. Before she moved from South Korea, she was an elementary school teacher, she told her sons.

"And here in America, she did what she had to do," he said to the news website. "She was a single mother of two kids who dedicated her whole life to raising them."

Soon Chung Park

Soon Chung Park, 74, was also a worker at an Atlanta spa.

Park previously lived in New York, where she has relatives, her son-in-law, Scott Lee, told the New York Times.

Suncha Kim.

Suncha Kim, 69, worked at one of the spas in Atlanta.

Kim, a grandmother, was married for more than 50 years, a family member told the Times. She enjoyed line dancing and worked hard, the relative said.