All of the women killed in Atlanta were employees of the massage businesses there, and all had immigrated from South Korea. Ms. Willis filed a notice in court that she will seek hate crime penalties if Mr. Long is convicted of murder. Ms. Willis said she believed she is the first prosecutor in the state to seek to use the law since it went into effect last July. Sheriff’s deputies stopped Mr. Long about 150 miles south of Atlanta in Crisp County, where he was driving on the highway. A police official later said that investigators believed Mr. Long was planning to attack a business in Florida connected to the pornography industry.

Source: New York Times May 11, 2021 19:07 UTC