China News Agency, Houston, March 17th. The suspect Robert Aaron Lang was sued on the 17th for allegedly shooting more than one person at 3 massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia, causing 8 deaths and 1 injury. Count of murder.
According to the Associated Press, on the 16th, the 21-year-old man from Georgia attacked three massage parlors in the Atlanta area.
On the 17th, the suspect was charged with four counts of murder and one count of intentional injury in Cherokee County, Georgia, and four counts of murder in Fulton County, Georgia.
He is currently detained at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center and is expected to be arraigned by the court on the 18th.
This is the deadliest shooting in the United States in the past two years.
The mayor of Atlanta said at a press conference on the 17th that the suspect was heading to Florida when he was arrested, or planned to continue the assault.
According to CNN, the suspect in the Atlanta massage parlour shooting was arrested by the police on the 16th and said that he was not committing a crime because of racial hatred. He claimed that he had "sex addiction."
Local law enforcement sources said that the suspect was recently driven out of the house by his parents because of "sex addiction."
It is also reported that the suspect legally purchased a gun at a gun shop in Georgia within this week.
The suspect's high school classmates described him as "super friendly" and a "super Christian" when he was a student.
Nick Straun, his seventh-grade classmate, said, "We were all taken aback when we heard of the shooting."
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