The man suspected of shooting eight people in cold blood Tuesday night in the Atlanta area at three massage parlors has been charged with murder.
Robert Aaron Long, 21, faces four counts of murder and one count of assault in the massacre at a massage parlor in Cherokee County. The other victims were killed at two massage parlors in Atlanta, which make up the other four murder counts for a total of eight victims.
On Wednesday, the Atlanta Police Department released 911 audio recordings related to the massage parlor shootings in the city: the Gold Spa and Aromatherapy Spa, both on Piedmont Road.
In the first call made at 5:47 p.m., a woman inside the Gold Spa is heard telling a dispatcher in a low voice that there was a robbery in progress. She appears to tell the dispatcher that she was hiding somewhere in the building.
“Where’s the person who is robbing the spa? Where is he right now?” the dispatcher asks during the two-minute call.
“I don’t know. I’m hiding right now,” the caller replies.
About 10 minutes after the first call was placed, a second one that lasted just over four minutes was made from a woman related to an incident at the Aromatherapy Spa.
The female caller said a friend called her and told her a guy entered the spa and fired a gun and that a lady was injured and people inside the business were hiding.
“They said some guy came in. … We heard a gunshot and, you know, the lady’s passed out in front of the door,” the caller said. “And everybody is scared and everybody is hiding.”
Long was allegedly on his way to Florida at the time of his arrest and hinted to potentially going “to carry out additional shootings.”
