Memorial pays tribute to victims on anniversary of spa shootings

FILE-In this Tuesday, March 16, 2021 file photo, authorities investigate a fatal shooting at a massage parlor, in Acworth, Ga. Asian American leaders plan to gather in Atlanta for a Community Remembrance Day remembering the victims of the shootings a year ago at massage businesses in the Atlanta area. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Nearly a year after eight people were killed in a mass shooting at three Atlanta-area spas, many of them women of Asian descent, community members came together Saturday to remember the victims at a memorial tribute.

More than 150 people gathered at a park to listen to family members of victims and members of Atlanta’s Asian American community speak about the shootings and their impact on their lives, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Robert Peterson, whose mother, Yong Ae Yue, was killed in one of the shootings, addressed those who showed up at the Atlanta tribute in frigid, late winter weather.