Victims of Atlanta spa shootings remembered 5 years later

Gunman Robert Aaron Long attributed the killings to a sexual compulsion rather than racial animus, a claim Asian American advocates have rejected.

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Eight people killed at Atlanta-area spas five years ago, six of them Asian women, are being remembered this week as communities across the country renew calls for justice and an end to anti-Asian hate.

Remembering the violence

On March 16, 2021, Robert Aaron Long fatally shot Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 4…