Mass killings a grisly chapter in Georgia history

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PHOTOS: Here's a look back at Georgia’s more notorious mass and spree killings from the 1940s to now.

03/17/2021 — Atlanta Police Department interim Chief Rodney Bryant (left) and Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds speak about the arrest of Robert Aaron Long (far right photo) during a press conference. Eight people were killed March 16, 2021, in metro Atlanta’s worst mass shooting spree since Mark Barton’s 1999 Buckhead rampage. Long, suspected of the shootings at three separate spas, is in custody. ALYSSA POINTER / AJC

This graveside group portrait was taken on July 28, 1946, following the burial of some of the victims of the Moore's Ford Bridge lynching, which took place on July 25, 1946. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

The Alday family murders of 1973: "We feel that Carl Isaacs' end was too humane," said Paige Seagraves, Ned Alday's granddaughter, after Isaacs' execution. "We want to emphasize that we do not believe this to be justice. In fact, the last 30 years have been cruel and unusual punishment for our family," she said. In the Donalsonville, Ga., cemetery, a 20-foot-long marble tombstone, erected by surviving family members, marks the graves of the six Alday family members who were killed in 1973. -- Some information from murderpedia.org

In July 1999, daytrader Mark Barton killed his wife and children before going on a shooting rampage first at his home and later at the Buckhead office complex where he worked, killing a total of nine people and wounding 13. Our photographers chronicled the day as it unfolded. Here, workers run from the scene of Barton's rampage at 3500 Piedmont Road. Official speculate that the motive for Barton's rampage stemmed from the fact that he had suffered $105,000 in losses over the previous two months daytrading. He started his rampage at his employer, Momentum Securities, and then continued his shooting spree at the nearby All Tech Investment Group. AJC FILE PHOTO

Brian Nichols trial: The four victims are shown on a courtroom monitor in mid-December 2008. Nichols had earlier admitted killing Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, who was overseeing his rape trial, Barnes' court reporter, Julie Ann Brandau, and Sheriff's Deputy Sgt. Hoyt Teasley, who pursued Nichols, on March 11, 2005. David Wilhelm, an off-duty federal agent, was gunned down during a robbery that night. AJC FILE PHOTO

Jesse James Warren allegedly shot five people, killing four, at a Penske Truck Rental near Kennesaw. Warren, a former Penske employee, was found too delusional to stand trial in 2017 and was committed indefinitely to a state psychiatric institution. PHIL SKINNER / AJC

Jeong Soo Paek shot four members of his family dead at Norcross’s Su Jung Health Salon before killing himself in Jan. 2013. AJC FILE PHOTO

Geddy Kramer shot six people at the FedEx facility in Kennesaw where he worked as a package handler, critically wounding one. Kramer took his own life at the scene. BRANT SANDERLIN / BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM

Daylon Delon Gamble is accused of killing four people in Rockmart in two separate incidents. Gamble was captured in Indianapolis after being on the run from authorities for three days. In July 2019, Polk District Attorney Jack Browning announced his intent to seek the death penalty against Gamble. INDIANAPOLIS POLICE DEPT. PHOTO

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03/17/2021 — Atlanta Police Department interim Chief Rodney Bryant (left) and Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds speak about the arrest of Robert Aaron Long (far right photo) during a press conference. Eight people were killed March 16, 2021, in metro Atlanta’s worst mass shooting spree since Mark Barton’s 1999 Buckhead rampage. Long, suspected of the shootings at three separate spas, is in custody. ALYSSA POINTER / AJC

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