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Atlanta police said the man who was detained was “highly likely” responsible for all three incidents, CNN reported.
06.33, March 17, 2021
Eight people were shot and killed Tuesday at three different massage parlors in the southern US state of Georgia. A good three hours after the incidents in and around the capital Atlanta, police arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of having been involved in the incidents, as US media reported, citing police.
Four people died that afternoon (local time) in Cherokee County, about 50 miles north of Atlanta, at an Asian massage parlor. Four other people were shot and killed at two Atlanta spas just an hour later. A reason has yet to be announced.
Atlanta police said the man who was detained was “highly likely” responsible for all three incidents, CNN reported. Videos would prove that. Work is still underway to confirm that the three cases are related, NBC News reported. At first it was said that there was no evidence that the events were related.
The four people killed in Atlanta are Women who seemed to have Asian roots NBC News and CNN reported. Initially there was no information on the four Cherokee County victims.
On Tuesday afternoon (local time), Cherokee County Police found two people shot dead and three wounded in an Asian massage parlor (“Young’s Asian Massage”), CNN and NBC News reported, citing police. . Two wounded died in the hospital.
Less than an hour later, police were called to a crime scene in Atlanta about 50 miles away for a robbery and discovered that three people were shot to death in a spa. Not far away, across the street, another dead person was found in an aromatherapy spa, Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said.
A good three hours after the shooting in Cherokee County, the 21-year-old suspect was taken into custody about 150 miles south of Atlanta, police said.
