8 Dead in Atlanta Shootings, Suspect Claims ‘Sexual Addiction’ as Motive

Eight people were killed in shootings at three businesses in the Atlanta area on Tuesday. Six of the eight victims were Asian women, authorities say.

The attacks began at around 5 pm Tuesday afternoon. Atlanta police officers first responded to a crime scene at Young’s Asian Massage, where four people were killed, in Cherokee County, just north of Atlanta. The victims were Delaina Ashley Yuan, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Yan, and Daoyou Feng. A fifth person, Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

About 45 minutes later, four more people were...

A white gunman accused of killing eight people, most of them of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors claimed to have a “sex addiction” and apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation, officials said Wednesday.

The bloodshed immediately raised fears of another hate crime against Asian Americans. But Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police the attack was not racially motivated, and police said it appeared it may not have been. Six of the victims were identified as Asian and seven were women.

The attack was...