One of eight people killed by a sex gunman in a killing spree at a three-room suicide show in Georgia on Tuesday was killed while awaiting twin treatment by her husband.
Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33, is one of eight people killed Tuesday by Robert Aaron Long, 21. Long told police he has sexual slavery and looked at the massage parlors he was in. aim as ‘outreach centers’ for his problem.
Three other victims were named; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Xiaojie Yan, 49; and Daoyou Feng, 44.
The killings were initially feared to be racially motivated as six of the eight were victims of Asian women, but police clarified Wednesday that Long told them that was not the case. encouraged it.
Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33, is one of eight people killed Tuesday by Robert Aaron Long, 21. Long told police he has sexual slavery and looked at the massage parlors he was in. aim as ‘outreach centers’ for his problem.
Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police he had sexual slavery and viewed the cellars as a ‘rebellion’ and a ‘temptation’ he wanted to remove. He confessed to the killings after police took his car off the road at 8pm on Tuesday night. He was on his way to Florida to carry out more attacks. He has been charged with four counts of murder and aggravated assault in Cherokee County, where the first targeted salon is located. He has yet to be charged in Atlanta
Investigators long ago said the crimes were not racially motivated. Long told investigators he blames the massage parlors for providing a way out for sex, ‘Cherokee Sheriff’s Office Captain Jay Baker said in a statement. email report Wednesday morning.
Yaun was in Young’s Asian Massage parlor with her husband for a couple massage when he opened fire, according to friends who have set up a GoFundMe account asking for donations.
The mother of two was shot dead on the spot but her husband escaped unharmed. One friend said on Facebook that she went to paradise to seek treatment for pain in her back.
It is not clear if any of the other victims had customers or employees. In addition to Yaun, a white man died along with six Asian women.
Long has been charged with four counts of murder and aggravated assault in Cherokee County, where the first targeted salon is located. He has yet to be charged in Atlanta.
The gunman bought his 9mm handgun hours before the rampage. He was on his way to Florida to carry out more attacks when he was captured.
The places in Florida were in some way linked to pornography, police said Wednesday without revealing more details.
‘He says he wasn’t racially motivated … he has a question that he thinks about sexual slavery and he sees those places as something that allows him to go to those places. .. it is a temple for him that he wanted to eliminate, Captain Jay Baker of the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference Wednesday.
Baker said it was a ‘very bad day’ for the suspect, and said: ‘He was at the end of his rope’. He did not analyze what had happened earlier in the day.
Three shootings at spas and massage parlors around Atlanta left eight dead as police pursued those responsible
People with the medical examiner’s office find the body of a climber from the Golden Spa massage paradise where three people were shot and killed Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia
Bodies are being wheeled out of a Gold Spa in Atlanta where a man caught fire. Two other pairs of massage were targeted
The shootings happened Tuesday afternoon around the Atlanta area. A body taken from a Gold Spa is seen
Long’s family – including the father of a youth minister – are ‘devastated’ by his actions and are cooperating with the investigation.
A classmate who had previously attended high school with Long told the Anonymous Beast anonymously: ‘He was very innocent looking and wouldn’t even cuss.
‘He was sorta nerdy and didn’t seem violent in what I remember. He was a hunter and his father was a youth or minister.
‘It was big into your faith.’
Long is believed to have opened fire at Young Asian Massage near Acworth, a city about 32 miles northwest of Atlanta, at 5 p.m. Four people were killed in that shooting.
Long is then accused of driving to Atlanta and opening a fire in Gold Massage Spa, killing three women.
While police were there, they received reports of more shots across the street at Aromatherapy Spa, where the eighth victim was found.
Long was chased by the shootings and was eventually arrested after police removed his Hyundai from the road.
He was arrested about 150 miles southwest of Atlanta in Crisp County.
The suspect was caught with a surveillance video pulling up to Young Asian Massage around 4:50 pm, just minutes before the shooting