Metropolitan Atlanta area, Georgia (Cherokee County and Piedmont Road, Atlanta) · 2021
2021 Atlanta Spa Shootings
On March 16, 2021, a gunman killed eight people—six of them women of Asian descent—and wounded a ninth at two spas and a massage parlor in the Atlanta area. Robert Aaron Long was arrested hours later and pleaded guilty to the Cherokee County killings, receiving life without parole; he faces separate Fulton County charges including hate crime enhancements and the death penalty.



