‘ My mother can rest easy’

A GoFundMe account for the sons of shooting victim Hyun Jung Grant has raised millions of dollars.

A GoFundMe page in memory of Hyun Jung Grant, one of eight people killed in the Georgia spa shooting last week, raised more than $ 2.7 million for her two sons.

Hyun Jung Grant, 51, was a single mother to Randy Park, 22, and his brother Eric, 21. On the GoFundMe page, Randy Park explained how his mother worked long hours at Gold Spa and was often away from home for days or weeks at a time. The brothers have no other family in the USA; the rest are living in South Korea and unable to come here, he said.

“I have no time to grieve for long,” Randy Park said on the page. “I will need to figure out the living situation for my brother and I for the next few months, possibly year.”

He described his mother as one of his best friends and a strong influence on his brother and himself. Park expressed gratitude to the more than 60,000 people who posted donations.

“I don’t know how any word I write here will ever convey how grateful and blessed I am to receive this much support,” he wrote. “Sharing and listening was more than enough thank you so much. And to those of you that have donated any amount of money. To put it bluntly, I can’t believe you guys exist. People I will probably never meet, hear, nor express my thanks to.”

Grant was among four people identified Friday by the Fulton County medical examiner as victims of the fatal shootings at the spas in Atlanta. The three others were Soon Chung Park, 74, Suncha Kim, 69, and Yong Ae Yue, 63.

Four others were killed at a spa in Acworth – Delaina Yaun, 33, Paul Michels, 54, Xiaojie Tan, 49, and Daoyou Feng, 44.

Six of the victims were Asian American women. A white man and a white woman also were killed. Robert Aaron Long, 21, is charged with multiple murder counts in the rampage.

Other GoFundMe pages raised money for victims. A page for the family of Suncha Kim raised more than $ 125,000. A page for Delaina Yaun collected almost $ 100,000. Yong Yue’s family raised more than $ 70,000, and Paul Michels’ page more than $ 55,000.

Randy Park, who spoke with USA TODAY last week, said he learned of his mother’s death Tuesday. He and his brother drove to Gold Spa. He’d never seen where she worked. “I just wanted to go there firsthand, see and hear everything regarding what happened.”

He said his mom was a teenager at heart. She loved to hang out with friends, go dancing and sing karaoke.

“She dedicated her whole life to raising us, and even then, she found time to enjoy herself with her friends,” he said.

PROVIDED BY THE PARK FAMILY Randy Park, center, says his mother, Hyun Jung Grant, was an inspiration to him and his brother Eric.