Investigators were trying to determine a motive for the attack and digging into the suspect’s background.
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Georgia man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life
Robert Aaron Long faces still faces the death penalty if convicted in four more shooting deaths in Atlanta.
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Man dies after weekend shooting in Austin that injured at least 13 other people
One male suspect was in custody Saturday, and another remained at large, Austin police said.
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Disgruntled worker who killed 9 appeared to target victims
The attack was the 15th mass killing in the U.S. this year, all shootings that claimed at least four lives each for a total of 87 deaths.
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More Americans believe anti-Asian hate is getting worse, poll finds
A majority of Americans across racial and ethnic groups believe discrimination has worsened in the last year against Asian Americans, who became the target of attacks after being unfairly blamed for the coronavirus pandemic.
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Another View: Gun safes would save lives
A near-tragedy in Bath shows that a loaded gun should never be kept where a child could find it.
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Police shootings of children spark renewed calls for training on adolescents in crisis
The long-standing question of how fatal police shootings of children could be avoided and lives spared has engulfed the nation in recent weeks.
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Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in Atlanta spa shootings
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also filed notice that she intends to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against Robert Aaron Long, who is white.
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At least 9 dead in rare Russian school shooting
Video footage shared on social media showed students hurling themselves from third-floor windows to escape the gunfire in Kazan, about 500 miles east of Moscow.
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Leonard Pitts: We should move heaven and earth to keep our kids alive. But we don’t.
You are our children, and we love you very much. But the killing of a 3-year-old at his own birthday party is just the most recent evidence that we love guns even more.