Suspect charged with eight murders in Atlanta shootings

A 21-YEAR-OLD GUNMAN with a “sex addiction” was charged yesterday with murdering eight people in spas around the US city of Atlanta, in triple attacks that have deeply shaken the Asian-American community.

Police said suspect Robert Aaron Long has denied a racist motive to Tuesday’s attacks – in which six of the victims were women of Asian origin – but that they had yet to determine the shooter’s reason for opening fire.