When his family called, doctors said he was very lucky to have survived, said Yoseline. “He is a very good father,” she said. “I don’t want him to go.”
Her husband, two children, mother and siblings are heartbroken and “there is nothing anyone can do to help with the pain,” said the GoFundMe page.
On Wednesday, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said four were of Korean ethnicity and Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong expressed condolences.
“Our government is following the situation closely, with a deep interest in the safety of our compatriots abroad,” Chung said at a news conference. “We express our deepest condolences to American citizens as well.”
Activist groups, community members and officials said the attacks heightened fear among Asians in the United States, in the wake of the increase in hate incidents resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It’s hard to ignore the fact that many of the victims were Asian, all the victims in Atlanta were Asian, in fact, and that he targeted these Asian massage parlors,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told CNN on Wednesday.
“Regardless of the motivation, given the concerns that the community already has in light of all the attacks we’ve seen – particularly against Asian American women and the elderly – I think this is a reminder that we need to do everything we can possibly do to protect the most vulnerable among us, “Georgia State Representative Sam Park told CNN.
Flores covered all three Atlanta locations on Wednesday, while the murdered victims were remembered. Jessica Lang put her hand on the Youngs in Acworth door after leaving flowers with her daughter.
Drawings and photographs of parents and children suggested the sadness of families when mourning parents, siblings, spouses and children.
MPs found four people shot there just before 5 pm Tuesday. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene and two died in a hospital.
The victims were Yaun, 33, from Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, from Atlanta; Xiaojie Yan, 49, from Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44.
About an hour later and 30 miles away, Atlanta police responded to what was described as a robbery at the Gold Massage Spa on Piedmont Road, Atlanta. Police said they found three people dead.
While there, police received another call for shots fired across the street at the Aroma Therapy Spa, where they found a dead person, Bryant said.
The authorities, seeking to contact family members, did not identify the other victims.
Long was arrested 150 miles south of the city, and Bottoms said he was going to Florida “perhaps to carry out additional shootings”.
“It is very likely that there were more victims,” Bottoms said at a news conference at Atlanta police headquarters.