'A new chapter in an old story': what the Atlanta shootings reveal about the US

After killings that followed a year of escalating hatred, Asian Americans ask why no one heeded the warnings

At 4.54pm on Tuesday, a Hyundai SUV pulled up outside Young's Asian Massage parlor in the Atlanta suburb of Acworth. Earlier that day the driver, a white man, had popped into Big Woods Goods, a gun store that prides itself on being fast and friendly".

Service in the shop was so fast, in fact, that with the benefit of Georgia's loose gun laws the man was able to buy a 9mm firearm on the spot.