Atlanta attacks: US senator wants deeper probe into racial motive

US legislator calls for ‘deeper investigation’ into deadly spa shootings that she says appear ‘racially motivated’.

A United States legislator has called for a “deeper investigation” into whether anti-Asian racism spurred three shootings in the Atlanta area that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent. Senator Tammy Duckworth’s comments on Sunday came after FBI Director Chris Wray told NPR last week that while the probe into the March 16 attacks was underway, “it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated.” “From where I sit, I want to see a deeper investigation into whether or not these shootings and other similar crimes are racially motivated,” Duckworth, one of only two Asian Americans in the US Senate, said in an interview on CBS programme Face the Nation.