“I was so proud of my daughter…” Victims killed by the Atlanta disaster

“I was a very kind, kind, and generous person.”

Xiaoze Tan, who ran the Young’s Asian Massage in Cherokee County, Georgia, said that he treated customers as comfortable as a family.

Tan, who is from China, was called’Emily’ by her friends.

On the 16th, two days before his 50th birthday, he was shot dead by a white male Robert Aaron Long, 21. Six of the eight people who died in serial shootings that day were such Asian women.

On the 18th (local time), the Washington Post introduced the story of the victims of the shooting at the Cherokee County massage shop near Atlanta.

The identities of the four Korean victims who were shot dead at two spas in downtown Atlanta on the same day have yet to be disclosed.

A long-time customer of Young’s Asian Massage said that Tan had a daughter at WP, and that she was very proud of her usual daughter.

Tan’s guest and friend, he went to the massage shop as soon as he heard the news of the shooting, but was dismayed by the police car that had already arrived.

“I can’t believe that there are no more bullets. It’s a shock,” he said.

Daowi Feng, 44, an Asian woman who was a massage shop employee, was also killed by Long’s shooting. He has been working in the shop for only a few months, WP said.

Dillana Ashley Yon, 33, a white woman, was changed after she went to a massage with her husband.

Shortly after the newlyweds visited the shop together, a shooting occurred. While the gunfire rang, the husband in the other room survived.

Yon’s bereaved family told WP that “My husband is having a very hard time.”

Jon is said to have raised a 13-year-old son alone before marriage while working as a waffle restaurant employee. The deceased also had an 8-month-old daughter.

One relative said, “Dillana was like the pillar of our family. If we needed anything in our family, we looked for him.”

Another victim of the shooting, Paul Andre Mickels, 54, was a businessman who had finished serving in the U.S. Army, the bereaved family said.

A white man, the WP reported that he was a Catholic and conservative after 20 years of marriage.

About 50 minutes after the shooting at this massage shop, four women were killed in shootings at two spas in downtown Atlanta.

While the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that they were of Korean origin, the local police said they were unable to reveal their identities because they had not yet notified the victims of the victims.

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