PHOTOS: Deadly shooting spree at Atlanta spas

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Eight women were shot to death Tuesday night in a series of shootings at metro Atlanta massage parlors.

Police officers standing outside a massage parlor where three people were shot and killed Tuesday evening. ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/Getty Images

4 killed, 1 injured in massage business shooting in Cherokee County; suspect in custody

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Young's Asian Spa in Acworth, Ga., was one of three massage parlors where a gunman shot and killed a total of eight people on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)

Gold Spa in northeastern Atlanta was one of three massage parlors where a gunman shot and killed a total of eight people on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)

Aromatherapy Spa in northeastern Atlanta was one of three massage parlors where a gunman shot and killed a total of eight people on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)

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03/16/2021 —Atlanta, Georgia — Atlanta Police Officers and Detectives respond to a crime scene at Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa, both located in the 1900 block of Piedmont Road NE in Atlanta, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. A 21-year-old man from Woodstock, who was captured in South Georgia on Tuesday night, is the suspect in three metro Atlanta massage parlor shootings that left eight people dead, authorities said. Robert Aaron Long was first identified as the suspect in the shooting at Young’s Asian Massage Parlor in Cherokee County that left four people dead and one person injured, according to the sheriff’s office. He is also a suspect in two more shootings at similar businesses in northeast Atlanta that resulted in four more deaths, according to a sheriff’s office spokesman. Six of the eight victims were Asian women, authorities said. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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