Atlanta massage parlor shootings leave eight dead including six Asian women
by Oliver Laughland, Peter Beaumont and agencies from on (#5FE9Y)
Man taken into custody after shootings at three locations, amid rising number of attacks on Asian Americans in the US
A series of shootings at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area have left eight people dead, the majority of them women of Asian descent, leading to fears the killer had a racial motive.
A 21-year-old man, Robert Aaron Long, is a suspect in the shootings, and was taken into custody in south-west Georgia about 150 miles (240km) from the city after his car was intercepted by police after a manhunt.
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