‘That hit home for me’: Atlanta reeling after spa shootings of Asian Americans
by Mike Jordan in Atlanta from on (#5FFTW)
Locals mourn eight victims killed on Tuesday at spas in area that has long functioned as red-light district of sorts
Christina Lee said her Vietnamese mother came to mind when she heard about the shootings at Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa in Atlanta on the night of 16 March.
I'm thinking about my mom, who owned a nail salon at one point," said Lee, a Georgia music and culture journalist. These are the kinds of businesses that open up to people who are new to this country. And to learn that the victims were Korean, that hit home for me too because I'm half-Korean."
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