Seven of the eight people killed were women; six were of Asian descent. The crime has stitched together stigmas about race, gender, migrant work and sex work.
No such evidence has yet surfaced in the Georgia probe, according to the officials, who have direct knowledge of the investigation into the suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long. They were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Officials have identified those killed as: Soon C. Park, 74; Hyun J. Grant, 51, whom family members identified by her maiden name, Hyun Jung Kim; Suncha Kim, 69; Yong A. Yue, 63; Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Daoyou Feng, 44; and Xiaojie Tan, 49, who owned Youngs.Most crimes are handled by local prosecutors. Federal officials may get involved when there is a violation of a U.S.
Police said the gunman previously visited two of the spas where four of the women were killed and said the suspect equated the businesses to sex, and that drove him to kill. Authorities have said he may have been headed to Florida to carry out a similar attack on "some type of porn industry."
Give it up, ffs!!! Many politicians, TV news hosts and even Hillary have called the shooting racist, right off the back, when there in no evidence of it being so. Even the shooter said that he wasn’t racially motivated! You stir the racist pot so much with your sensationalism!
I just think it was pure coincidence, I mean who else works at a spa It’s mostly Asians.. if it were black people, he would have killed black women..
The United States of America is the most racist fucked up country in the world
No kidding. I believe this spa is owned by Korean. what's the found evidence for hate crime?
Instead of theorizing, why not ask him?
Hates rub and tugs. 😳
He looks like the centrefold for Incel Monthly. So, his hate focus is pretty obvious.
Very sad - my bet it’s a trumper
They will if US media keeps pushing it.
US investigators have not found evidence for hate crime…… Let me guess, investigators only used braille to find the bullet holes.
You make me sick with your ignorant headlines, CTV.
funny bc a witness says he was shouting kill all the Asians! AND cops were telling other cops to check in on Asian businesses.. but sure a racist wouldnt say another guy is racist.. the cop was selling covid 'chy na' shirts.
He shot because they were women vulnerable
Because they’re trying their damndest to make it about anything else. Bottom line is the guy went looking for Asian people, and murdered 8. That’s a hate crime, end of story.
Even if they can’t make a hate crime against Asian stick (it prob was but maybe he was too illiterate to write it down) it was ALSO a hate crime against women. He admitted that.
All these emotional Twitter lawyers in the comments 🤣🤫
All the racists in these comments who can't see past skin colour & leave out this guy killed two white women & shot a Spanish man just to fit their anti-white narrative is pretty gross. You should fix your life.
Because the murderer told police his reasons. You can't make up a hate crime stop trying.
Because it wasn’t. He had a sex addition and he told the police this. I know y’all want it to be about race but it wasn’t.
It was a hate crime against women.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be racial hate, but perhaps gender. As in, a crime against women.
On big fucking clue he killed mainly Asians!
If u r person of color living in North America, be on the look out for white men getting up on the wrong side of bed. They don't hate u, they just hate themselves.
Oh it’s a hate crime
You trust a country lied about Iraq's WMD? Enough is enough, stop your lies!
No evidence..... you mean besides the Asian women that were murdered? They need more evidence?
some investigators are seriously that stupid?
I would have thought shooting up an Asian-American business, specifically and as a target, would have been enough to constitute that?
Obviously!!!
Because women don't matter.
Seriously? Deciding that Asian-American women don’t deserve to live is not evidence of hate?
Seriously?
look harder or get glasses..Im old as dirt and can tell you its a hate crime
*US investigators have not yet admitted it’s a hate crime* there, fixed your headline :)
Must have been an act of love towards Asian women then! I don’t know what is worse, the acts, or the attempts to negate them.
Maybe he was just disgusted by the brothels in his town, but why shoot the prostitutes?
Bull. All they have to do is ask (or interrogate) the shooter what his goal was. That’s it.
Really, rocket science i Guess
Did they actually look? Seriously?
Of course not a hate crime. Local non-English outlets are much more honest, as well as Asian media.
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Because they protect their white boy shooter