Robert Aaron Long was arrested in the fatal shootings of multiple people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, most of them women of Asian descent
ATLANTA (Georgia, US), July 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) –Robert Aaron Long, the man charged with shooting eight people in Atlanta-area spas in March – six of them women of Asian decent – pleaded guilty to murdering four of the victims.
Dressed in a white button-down shirt with an open collar and dress slacks and sporting a mohawk haircut, Long pleaded guilty in court to the murders of four people at the day spa in Cherokee County, about 64 km north of Atlanta.
Long, holding his head up but looking somber, also affirmed agreement with the state’s recommendation of four life sentences without possibility of parole, to be served consecutively, plus 35 years on other charges.
The victims in Cherokee County have been identified as: Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Xiaojie Yan, 49; and Daoyou Feng, 44.
Long has also been indicted on murder charges in the March 16 killings of four women in Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta.
