Still, the suspect equated the businesses to sex, and that drove him to kill, police said. “There’s this assumption that all these massage parlor workers are sex workers. In 2018, a Florida gunman with what police called a “hatred towards women” killed two and injured five at a yoga studio. “At its core it's about going out and targeting sex workers as fallen women, blaming them for social ills,” she said. “They hold other people — the porn industry, sex workers, even women in general — responsible for triggering these sexual desires in them they are afraid of,” he said.

Source: ABC News March 19, 2021 19:52 UTC