{"id":237977,"date":"2021-03-17T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=237977"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:15:25","slug":"georgia-mass-shooting-kills-8-media-races-to-speculate-on-motive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-mass-shooting-kills-8-media-races-to-speculate-on-motive\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Mass Shooting Kills 8, Media Races To Speculate On Motive"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-mass-shooting-kills-8-media-races-to-speculate-on-motive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=237977&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1545.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A series of shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors left eight dead Tuesday night and, after an extended manhunt, police have arrested a 21-year-old man who is believed to have confessed to the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attacks began around 5 p.m. when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor in a strip mall near a rural area in Acworth, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta, Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker said. Two people died at the scene and three were transported to a hospital where two of them also died,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/georgia-massage-parlor-shooting-8-dead-9e39706c523c733a6d83d9baf4866154\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting spree continued across the suburbs surrounding Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 5:50 p.m., police in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, responding to a call of a robbery in progress, found three women dead from apparent gunshot wounds at Gold Spa. While they were at that scene, they learned of a call reporting shots fired at another spa across the street, Aromatherapy Spa, and found a woman who appeared to have been shot dead inside the business,\u201d the AP continued.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to identify the suspect\u2019s vehicle through security footage taken of the parking lot in front of the first targeted massage parlor. Law enforcement spotted the 2007 black Hyundai Tucson around 8:30 pm, gave chance, and performed a PIT maneuver \u2014 a controlled crash meant to push the suspect\u2019s vehicle into a controlled spin. The suspect was then taken into custody \u201cwithout incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although a motive was not immediately apparent, media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/16\/us\/atlanta-shootings-massage-parlor.html\">including the New York Times<\/a>, began to speculate that the suspect\u2019s decision to target the massage parlors, staffed largely by Asian females, was indicative of an anti-Asian hate crime and connected the shooting spree to recent attacks on elderly individuals of Asian descent in places like San Francisco, California, and New York City (though even the most high-profile of those attacks do not appear to have been motivated specifically by racial animus).<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, however, spoke directly to police shortly after capture and took \u201cfull responsibility\u201d for the attacks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/atlanta-shooting-suspect-police-attacks-not-racially-motivated-sex-addiction\">per Fox News<\/a>. Authorities said in a news conference that, based on his confession, they believe the shootings were \u201cnot racially motivated\u201d and that \u201c[the shooter] instead allegedly opened fire because he saw the locations as \u2018an outlet for him\u2019 to succumb to purported sex-addiction temptations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to police, [the shooter] claimed his attacks were not racially motivated, but rather sees the massage parlor locations as allowing him to feed \u2018a temptation\u2019 that he was trying \u2018to eliminate,\u2019 police said,\u201d per Fox. The shooter also intended to carry out further attacks, and had planned to drive from Atlanta to an unknown location in Florida. He reportedly \u201cmade indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past,\u201d the police noted.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did stress, however, that the investigation is \u201congoing,\u201d and that no motive can be completely ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Sex worker support organizations noted \u201cthat workers at Asian massage parlors and spas are frequent targets of violence from both customers and police. People speculating about possible motives for this horrific crime probably shouldn\u2019t overlook that fact in the rush to portray the shootings as stemming from anti-Asian racism tied to COVID-19,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/03\/17\/massage-parlor-massacre-8-killed-in-atlanta-media-speculates-about-anti-asian-motive\/\">according to Reason Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors left eight dead Tuesday night and, after an extended manhunt, police have arrested a 21-year-old man who is believed to have confessed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310667,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1545.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Georgia Mass Shooting Kills 8, Media Races To Speculate On Motive","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1545.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Georgia Mass Shooting Kills 8, Media Races To Speculate On Motive","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}