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| On the 17th (local time), a flower to commemorate the victims is placed at a massage shop in the massacre of eight people killed in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. According to foreign media, among the eight deaths confirmed at the scene, six were Asian, two were Caucasian, and all seven other than one were identified as women. Four of the eight victims were Korean women. © Reuters = News 1 |
Four Korean female employees, two in their gowns, were in their 70s and the other two were in their 50s and 60s, respectively.
Atlanta K, a Korean media outlet in Atlanta, reported on the victims’ personal information and the situation at the time of the incident, citing survivors’ testimonies on the 17th (local time).
An employee of the’Aroma Therapy Spa’, where one Korean woman died, said, “The woman who died was a 64 year old nanny working as a manager.
According to the testimony, the suspect, Aaron Long (21), thought that he was a guest and suddenly fired at Yoo, who came out to open the door, and then fled immediately. The two employees, who were hiding under a desk in the store, were frightened by the sound of the guns, and were not harmed.
The deaths of the’Gold Massage Spa’ are 71-year-old Park Mo, 53-year-old Park Mo, and a woman in her 70s whose real name has not been disclosed.
All four Korean victims are known to have lived in Toulouse, Atlanta’s largest Korean town. In particular, Park Mo, two of them, had been working at the business for about two years.
In addition to these establishments, four people died at the’Young’s Asian Massage’ where the shooting incident occurred. According to the names of the deceased by the local police, it is estimated that two were white and the other two were of Asian descent.
Meanwhile, on that day, the Atlanta police released the audio file of the report call received at the time of the shooting.
According to the released audio file, a Gold Spa employee called 911 at 5:57 pm on the 16th. He urgently appealed to the question asking the suspect’s impression, “I don’t know, please come.”