US: Atlanta Shooting at least 8 dead, several wounded

[Nicky91]

https://twitter.com/AuthorJoeNBrown/status/1372082730893246467

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/us/metro-atlanta-shootings-wednesday/index.html

[Ammi]

...only one person suspected for all 3 locations and he’s in custody now...?...so good that they have him...terribly sad, those people were all either shopping or just having a working day, possibly...it’s just so chilling to think...so many families with broken worlds atm...

[Ammi]

...apologies, it wasn’t 3 shops...it was a massage place or 3 massage places, it seems a bit unclear atm...

[arista]

...apologies, it wasn’t 3 shops...it was a massage place or 3 massage places, it seems a bit unclear atm...



Something has gone wrong in one of them,
I would think.

[Ammi]

Something has gone wrong in one of them,
I would think.

....hmmmm...maybe, Arista...but there’s also this...

‘The killings came amid a recent wave of attacks against Asian Americans that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the United States.’


...we’ll have to wait for more information on the awful incidents...

[UserSince2005]

It wasn’t a happy ending

[Gstar]

Horrific news, RIP to all the victims. I wonder how long this terrorist will get

[Ammi]

Horrific news, RIP to all the victims. I wonder how long this terrorist will get

...it’s a huge attack and life-loss and still unknown amount of injuries etc...I’m surprised how little coverage it’s getting here in the media...it hasn’t yet made it to my newsfeed page...

[Nicky91]

...it’s a huge attack and life-loss and still unknown amount of injuries etc...I’m surprised how little coverage it’s getting here in the media...it hasn’t yet made it to my newsfeed page...

indeed, kinda a huge attack or at least same amount awful as other shootings which do get media coverage

maybe still to come later on in the afternoon/evening :think:

[Alf]

People have been predicting mass shootings ever since Biden cheated his way into office.

They want to take away the guns and need a tragic event to go after them.

I could probably show you loads of tweets of people predicting this.

[Nicky91]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/us/atlanta-shooting-victims-spa.html

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/03/19/us/19atlanta-victims/merlin_185241438_19bb6241-ab47-4e9f-8686-8f762964f31a-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

Among the eight people killed at Atlanta-area spas this week was a wife going for a massage with her husband, and immigrant mothers working long hours to support their children.

ATLANTA — From early in the morning until late at night, Hyun Jung Grant was at work. She was a single mother with life’s unyielding obligations: two sons who needed college tuition, the rent on the home they all shared, the relentless drumbeat of bills.

An immigrant from South Korea, Ms. Grant, 51, did not talk much about her job at Gold Spa, a massage parlor in a neon-lit stretch of strip malls in northeastern Atlanta. She preferred to tell people that she worked at a makeup store.

“She didn’t want us to worry about her ever,” said her son Eric Park, 20.

Ms. Grant was among eight people shot to death on Tuesday evening. Another victim is still hospitalized.

They had come a long way to the storefronts set inconspicuously amid the crowded commercial unspooling of metro Atlanta. They had come from Korea, from China, from Guatemala, from Detroit, from right up the road in Acworth, Ga. Most had come to work, perhaps to put some aside for children and even grandchildren, to carve out a little bit of security and independence for themselves and their families.

Then a young man with a gun arrived, and over the course of a single violent hour, years of work and accumulated opportunities were put to an abrupt end.

“All I can think about is her,” said Mr. Park, recalling the days at the mall and aquarium, just him and his brother and his mother, the bowls of soondubu at Korean restaurants, the kimchi jjigae she made herself. Ms. Grant had encouraged Eric in his dreams of becoming a chef. They were a close-knit trio, relying on one another.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/03/19/us/19atalnta-victims2/merlin_185256366_e417fc99-f9fb-4895-b4c4-a5d36b2a5fb6-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp
Hyun Jung Grant with her sons, Randy Park, left, and Eric Park, when they were young.
Credit...via Randy and Eric Park

“It’s just us two now,” Eric said.

Twenty-five miles up the interstate from Gold Spa, amid the strip malls and parking lots of the Atlanta suburbs, sits Young’s Asian Massage, a shop that was kept running through long days and late evenings by Xiaojie Tan.

“She worked from 9 to 9 almost every day,” said Ashley Zhang, a friend of Ms. Tan’s, who like her was a Chinese immigrant. “We’re here for opportunity,” she said. “We work so hard. We want the American dream to come true.”

[Tom4784]

This is what happens when the previous president handled the coronavirus by calling it 'kung flu' and 'the china virus'. That fat oaf stirred up hatred towards asian people throughout his last year of his first and only term in office, and it's not wonder that some mutant looking neckbeard that probably believes in Q and Trump has killed people.

When you peddle in hatred like Trump has towards a minority, you make them the scapegoat, you expose them to violence. Eight more victims of the MAGA terrorists.

[Nicky91]

This is what happens when the previous president handled the coronavirus by calling it 'kung flu' and 'the china virus'. That fat oaf stirred up hatred towards asian people throughout his last year of his first and only term in office, and it's not wonder that some mutant looking neckbeard that probably believes in Q and Trump has killed people.

When you peddle in hatred like Trump has towards a minority, you make them the scapegoat, you expose them to violence. Eight more victims of the MAGA terrorists.

exactly

[Jordan.]

People have been predicting mass shootings ever since Biden cheated his way into office.

They want to take away the guns and need a tragic event to go after them.

I could probably show you loads of tweets of people predicting this.

Mass shootings in the US? No way you can't convince me.