Atlanta-area spa shootings: Victims families to gather for day of healing

On Saturday, the Asian American Advocacy Fund is calling for people to come together for a day of healing and to mourn the lives lost. Family members of victims will be at the event, which beings at 1 p.m. at Blackburn Park, the site of the ninth “Comfort Women” statue in Atlanta sits.

Spa shootings could be first test of Georgia hate crimes law

The murder case against a white man charged with shooting and killing six women of Asian descent and two other people at Atlanta-area massage businesses this week could become the first big test for Georgia’s new hate crimes law.

Police: 4 women killed in 2 spa shootings on Piedmont Road in Atlanta

Police in Atlanta said four people are dead at two separate spas along Piedmont Road NE on Tuesday evening. Investigators have since linked the two incidents to a deadly shooting at a massage parlor in Cherokee County and confirmed the shooter was arrested in Crisp County.