Fulton County Superior Court on March 30, 2026, has been convicted of murdering four people in Cherokee County. He has pleaded not guilty in his Fulton County case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking the death penalty in Long’s case under Georgia’s hate crime statute. All four of the Fulton County victims were Asian women. At 2 p.m. on March 16, 2021, Long, then 21 and a resident of Woodstock, Georgia, bought a gun and ammunition from Big Woods Goods in Holly Springs. Long’s plan, he would later tell the police, was to commit suicide. Instead, he then drove to a liquor store and purchased bourbon. Long then drove to Youngs Asian Massage Parlor near Acworth in a dark Hyundai SUV. Outside, he sat in his vehicle and drank the bourbon before going inside. At 4:54 p.m., Long began shooting, killing four people and injuring a fifth. Surveillance cameras captured him leaving the business. At 5:47 p.m., Atlanta police responded to a robbery report at the Gold Spa on Piedmont Road about 30 miles away. Police found three women shot to death. Then police were told shots had been fired across the street at the Aromatherapy Spa . There, police found another woman shot to dea
