Four years ago this Sunday, on March 16, 2021, a shooter killed eight people at a massage parlor and two spas in Atlanta. Six of the victims were Asian women.
Georgia lawmakers and Asian American rights advocates commemorated the four-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings at the Georgia State Capitol on Thursday.
Democratic state Rep. Long Tran, the chair of the Georgia Legislative AAPI Caucus, said the shootings were “one of the most violent and tragic incidents that has happened to our AAPI community in history.”
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