Atlanta mayor believes race played role in spa shooting suspect's motive
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms believes race played a role in the motive of the suspected shooter who allegedly killed eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta-area spas earlier this week.
"We can't ignore the fact that there were Asian women who were -- seem to have been targeted in these Asian massage parlors," Bottoms, a Democrat, told CNN's David Axelrod on an episode of "The Axe Files" podcast released Thursday. The shooting rampage on Tuesday took place at three different Atlanta-area spas -- one in Cherokee County and two across the street from one another within the city -- and left eight people dead, while another was wounded. Robert Aaron Long, 21, has been charged in the shootings, and investigators say he has told them the killings were not racially motivated.More Related News