Robert Aaron Long Identified As Suspect in Atlanta-Area Asian Spa Shootings That Left 8 People Dead
Deputies alleged he entered Young’s Asian Massage Parlor along Georgia Highway 92 and opened fire at about 5 p.m., shooting five people and killing four of them in Woodstock, an Atlanta suburb near Acworth. Officials alleged he then drove to nearby Atlanta and opened fire at two additional Asian spas, Gold Spa and Aromatherapy, killing four more people.
A Facebook post that has now been deleted included testimony from Long at his baptism in 2018. He said it was the second time he had been baptized.
“As many of you may remember, when I was 8 years old I thought I was becoming a Christian, and got baptized during that time. And I remember a lot of the reason for that is a lot of my friends in my Sunday school class were doing that. And after that time, there wasn’t any fruit from the root that is our salvation,” he said, referencing scripture.
The Bible passage means that a person’s actions should reflect their inner walk with God. He continues, saying he attended a youth group in seventh grade where he heard the Biblical story about the prodigal son.
“The son goes off and squanders all that he has and lives completely for himself and then, when he finds he’s wanting to eat pig food, he realized there’s something wrong and he goes back to his father and his father runs back to him and embraces him. And by the grace of God I was able to draw the connection there and realize this is a story between what happened with me and God. I ran away living completely for myself, and he still wants me, and so that’s when I was saved,” he said.
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