The confessed perpetrator of the shootings at three massage parlors in Atlanta was charged with murder by Tuesday’s attacks that left eight dead and sowed panic in the Asian community of the United States.
Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, has apparently denied any racist motives and has presented himself as an anxious “sex addict” to end “a temptation,” said Captain Jay Baker, a spokesman for the Cherokee County Office, where the shooter was arrested.
(In context: Eight dead in shootings in Asian massage parlors in Atlanta)
But investigators believe it is premature to rule on the true motive for the massacre. Six of its eight victims are of Asian descent, four of them South Korean. Seven are women.
The victims were killed in three attacks on Asian massage parlors located around the southern American city of Atlanta.
We will defend our American and Korean compatriots to make them feel safe
This triple shooting occurs in a context of growing concern among the Asian-American population, which denounces a rise in racist aggression against them.
The American president, Joe Biden, Said Wednesday that violence against people of Asian descent is “very worrying” and addressed the dismay this community suffers in the United States.
The president indicated that he spoke with the attorney general and the director of the FBI investigation agency, and stated that the reasons for Tuesday’s incident remain to be determined and that it left eight dead, six of them Asian people.
“I know Asian Americans are very concerned because, as you know, we’ve talked about brutality against Asian Americans in recent months,” Biden said. It’s a “very worrying” thing, he added.
Violence against the Asian community in the US has grown enormously in the last year (e.g., 1,900 percent in New York City, according to the city police department) in possible connection with the covid pandemic, the first cases were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and the growing Washington-Beijing polarization.
The US Secretary of State. UU., Anthony Blink, Condemned the killings in Seoul on Wednesday. “I want to offer my deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who have died. We will defend our American and Korean compatriots so that they feel safe,” he said. flash during a meeting with his South Korean counterpart, Chung Eui-yong, in statements collected by the Yonhap agency.
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