GoFundMe page for children of Atlanta shooting victims raises $ 2 million

The crowdfunding page, which the company said was verified, appeared to have been created by Grant’s son Randy Park.

“She was one of my best friends and the biggest influence on who we are today,” he wrote. “Losing it put a new lens in my eyes on the amount of hatred that exists in our world.”

Park wrote that he and his brother are the only members of his family in the United States. The rest of the family is in South Korea.

Randy Park did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNN.

According to the page, more than 59,000 people have made donations. Randy Park wrote that the page was created to help cover rent, food and monthly bills.

Grant, 51, was one of four people identified on Friday by the Fulton County Medical Examiner as victims of the fatal shootings in spas in Atlanta. The other three were identified as Soon Chung Park, 74, Suncha Kim, 69, and Yong Ae Yue, 63.

A victim of the Atlanta spa shooting was a South Korean citizen, the official said.

Four people died at the spa in Acworth, Cherokee County, about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta. They were identified by the authorities as Delaina Yaun, 33, of Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, from Atlanta; Xiaojie Tan, 49, from Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44. One man, Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, survived.

Some officials have called for hate crime charges against the suspect, who officials said he may have traveled to carry out more attacks when he was arrested on Tuesday night.

The shootings heightened the fear that many Asians in the U.S. feel when anti-Asian hate crimes more than doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

The suspect was arrested Tuesday night at a traffic stop 150 miles south of Atlanta.

CNN’s Ray Sanchez contributed to this report.

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