ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Officials are set to hold a press conference Monday as the region marks five years since a shooting spree left eight people dead at three metro Atlanta massage businesses.
Robert Aaron Long, who is set to make another appearance in Fulton County Superior Court on March 30, 2026, has been convicted of murdering four people in Cherokee County. He has pleaded not guilty in his Fulton County case.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking the death penalty in Long’s case under Georgia’s hate crime statute. All four of the Fulton County victims were Asian women.
At 2 p.m. on March 16, 2021, Long, then 21 and a resident of Woodstock, Georgia, bought a gun and ammunition from Big Woods Goods in Holly Springs. Long’s plan, he would later tell the police, was to commit suicide. Instead, he then drove to a liquor store and purchased bourbon…