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Atlanta ‘shooter’ Robert Long filmed walking from massage parlor after deadly rampage at spas he ‘visited often’
CHILLING video has emerged showing Atlanta gunman Robert Aaron Long stalking his victims as they enter the spa before calmly going inside and slaughtering four of them.
The surveillance footage also shows Long, 21, hop into his car and speed away to his next target as the wounded from Young’s Asian Massage Parlor, Acworth, spilled out onto the sidewalk.
The killer can be seen calmly strolling out of the massage parlor after opening fire[/caption]
During Tuesday’s killing spree, he would go on to target two more parlors in Atlanta, with eight people shot dead, including six Asian women at three parlors.
He then went on the run and was driving to Florida to target porn-industry locations when he was arrested 150 miles south of Atlanta.
Cops later rammed his Hyundai off the road and arrested and detained him.
Long has now been charged on Wednesday with eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault.
Long told police the attack was 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.
All the targeted massage parlors, Long frequently visited, it’s reported.
Police, however, have said they are still working to determine a motive.
Flowers and a sign reading “Stop Asian Hate” are seen outside Young’s Asian Massage, where security footage captured the rampage unfolding[/caption]
Former roommate Tyler Bayless, 35, told Reuters that he spent several months living in an Atlanta halfway house for recovering addicts with the suspect.
Bayless, who says he was being treated for drug addiction, said he was in a halfway house named Maverick Recovery with Long in late 2019 and early 2020, and last saw Long in February 2020.
He said Long had been treated for sex addiction and that he frequented massage parlors “for explicitly sexual activity.”
GUNMAN ‘DEEPLY RELIGIOUS’
Bayless said Long was “deeply religious” and would become “very emotionally distraught that he frequented these places.”
Reuters called Maverick Recovery but the facility was not open.
Law enforcement officials said Long may have been struggling with a sex addiction that he presented as his motive for violence that primarily targeted minority women.
Authorities did not discount the possibility that the attacks were inspired at least in part by anti-immigrant or anti-Asian sentiment or some personal grievance.
Long was arrested on Tuesday night[/caption]
One victim has been identified as Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33[/caption]
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Four of the eight victims have now been named.
They were Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Xiaojie Yan, 49; and Daoyou Feng, 44.
Elcias R Hernandez-Ortiz was injured but survived.
Pals of Yaun say that she and her husband were there for a couple’s massage. He escaped but she was shot dead.
Jesus Estrella, of Kennesaw, prays in silence at Youngs Asian Massage parlor where four people were killed[/caption]
A man walks by a makeshift memorial outside of Gold Spa following the deadly shootings[/caption]
