- Atlanta police released 911 call audio from Tuesday’s mass shootings in massage parlors.
- In one call a woman in hiding from the nearby gunman urged police to “come quickly.”
- Police have charged Robert Aaron Long, 21, with eight counts of murder.
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Atlanta Police Department on Wednesday released audio from 911 calls made during the killings at massage parlors around the city that left eight people dead.
The call first call was was made at about 5:45 p.m. from the Gold Spa in the north-east of Atlanta. It is the second such business which police say that Robert Aaron Long, 21, visited on his killing spree.
Less than an hour earlier, police say Long shot dead 4 people in a massage spa in Cherokee County, about 30 miles away.
In the call a woman is talking quietly, apparently concerned about being heard. Her identity is not clear. Here is the audio:
“Need police,” she tells the emergency call operator, and says she believes a man is committing a robbery at the premises.
“Do you have a description of the male?” the emergency call operator says.
“Hiding right now, that’s why,” the woman says. “They have a gun.”
“Where is the person who is robbing the spa? Where is he right now?” says the operator.
“I don’t know. I’m hiding right now.”
“Please come, OK?” says the woman.
When police arrived at the scene, they found 3 women with fatal gunshot wounds.
Across the road, in the Aromatherapy Spa, another shooting was in progress and 1 woman was shot dead.
In a second call released by police, received about 10 minutes after the first, a woman says she has just received a call from a friend at the scene of one the shootings.
“I just got a call from one of my friends and they say some guy came in…. and the lady’s passed out,” the woman said. “Everybody’s scared so they’re hiding.”
“Somebody came in,” she said. “So, everybody heard the gunshots and some lady got hurt… Everybody’s scared so they’re hiding.”
Using surveillance camera footage from the venues, police were able to identify Long as the suspect and caught him after a car chase. He was charged Wednesday with eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault.
In a police conference yesterday, police did not rule out a racial motive for the killings, but said the suspect had told them he was a sex addict and the spas were a “temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate.”