Atlanta-area spa shooter to serve 4 life sentences in Cherokee County slayings - NBC News

Jul 27, 2021

Cherokee County District Attorney Shannon Wallace said that the surviving victims and the families of those killed did not want to pursue the death penalty.

Evidence shows that Long entered Youngs Asian Massage and paid for a service, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Long then went into a back bathroom.

Michels, and shot one time, executing him," Wallace said.

Prosecutors said Feng was shot when she poked her head out of the room to see what was going on.

Tan was hiding in a room when she was shot once in the head, according to prosecutors.

After killing her, Long went into another room where a customer was crouching behind a massage table.

Prosecutors said they were either hiding in rooms where someone else was shot or were in rooms Long did not enter.

Prosecutors said evidence shows Long left the business at around 4:50 p.m.

At Tuesday's hearing, Wallace said Long's motive was due to his addiction and that Cherokee County investigators saw no evidence of racial bias.

Long said after paying for a service and using the bathroom, he began shooting the employees and customers

Prosecutors said that Long's parents used a tracker app they had put on his phone to help law enforcement find him