Las Vegas Review-Journal

■ Four more victims in the Atlanta-area massage business shootings have been identified.

Three died at Gold Spa in Atlanta, fourth died across street

- By Jeff Amy and Kate Brumback

ATLANTA — The names of four additional victims in the Atlanta-area massage businesses shootings have been released, hours before President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive in Atlanta to meet with Asian American community leaders.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday that the four victims at two Atlanta businesses are Soon C. Park, 74; Hyun J. Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; and Yong A. Yue, 63. Family members identified Grant by her maiden name, Hyun Jung Kim.

The medical examiner performed autopsies on all four Wednesday, saying all but Suncha Kim died Tuesday from gunshots to the head. She died from a gunshot to the chest.

Three of the women died at the Gold Spa in Atlanta, while the fourth woman died across the street at Aromathera­py Spa. The medical examiner didn’t say which woman died at Aromathera­py.

A 21-year-old white man, Robert Aaron Long, is charged with murder in Tuesday’s slayings. He’s also accused of killing four people and wounding a fifth person at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor near Woodstock, in Atlanta’s northweste­rn suburbs.

Cherokee County authoritie­s earlier identified the dead there as Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Daoyou Feng, 44; and Xiaojie Tan, 49, who owned Youngs.

Investigat­ors believe Long had previously visited two of the Atlanta massage parlors where four of the women were killed, Hampton said.

Long told police that the attacks were not racially motivated. He claimed to have a sex addiction, and authoritie­s said he apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation.

Crabapple First Baptist Church, where Long was an active member, issued a statement Friday saying it was seeking to remove Long from membership, saying “we can no longer affirm that he is truly a regenerate believer in Jesus Christ.”

The church said its teaching does not condone violence against Asian Americans or women and it’s improper to view women as somehow responsibl­e for male sexual urges.

“Each person is responsibl­e for his or her own sin,” the church said. “In this case, the shooter is solely responsibl­e for his heinous actions, not the victims who were targeted.”

Long’s statements spurred outrage and widespread skepticism in the Asian American community, which has increasing­ly been targeted for violence during the pandemic.

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