8 dead after shootings at 3 Atlanta-area spas; suspect caught, linked to all 3 incidents

(ATLANTA, GA) BREAKING:  At least eight people were killed Tuesday after shootings at three spas in the Atlanta area, authorities said. Four people were fatally shot at two spas in northeast Atlanta, and four people were killed at a Cherokee County spa.

The Cherokee Sheriff’s Office did not provide additional details or identifying information about the other victims. Officials have not disclosed a suspected motive.

Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested, Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said. Atlanta police said Tuesday night that the suspect in the city’s two shootings is likely the same as Cherokee County’s and that an investigator was working to confirm that the cases are related.

Cherokee County deputies discovered two people dead and three others wounded at the massage parlor in the Acworth community, Baker said. The injured were taken to a hospital, where two of them later died, he said. Those calls came in at 5:47 p.m. and 5:57 p.m., according to Atlanta Police Department’s call sheet.

 APD said it appears the victims are all Asian women. Although the call came in as a robbery, interim Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said they are still investigating the motive. Tuesday evening, Cherokee officials released surveillance pictures of Robert Aaron Long, 21 of Woodstock and asked the public for help locating him.