- The Georgia man arrested in connection with shootings at Atlanta-area day spas that left eight people dead graduated from a high school north of Georgia’s capital in 2017 and attended a Baptist church in the area.Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia was arrested on Tuesday night and was being held in a Cherokee County detention center.
Authorities said they did not have any initial indication that Tuesday’s shootings were racially motivated. Six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent. A white woman and white man were also among those killed. Long is white. “We are heartbroken for all involved. We grieve for the victims and their families, and we continue to pray for them,” the statement said. “Moreover, we are distraught for the Long family and continue to pray for them as well.”
Long’s family did not respond to a request for comment. The family facilitated the arrest, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department.
Whatever
Reuters white-washing a mass murderer. Do better.
I LITTERALY want to scream at you posting this, CORRECT IT. It was a hate crime, he is a white nationalist, a terrorist!!!! Hold all the news outlet accountable for not taking the correct title!!
So what? He murdered people, who cares if he attended church?
Apparently he never quite got the message, then.
I don’t understand your headline? Wtf does that even mean? He killed ppl Did you leave that out on purpose? WTF?
Did he eat sandwiches? Maybe he wore jeans? Both are just as relevant as 'going to church.'
Hey I went back to check your coverage of 9/11 but I didn’t find the article on 9/12 that indicated the terrorists attended mosque. Can you point it out to me? Thanks.
White supremacist terrorist held in murder of 6 Asian women, 2 others possibly radicalized in church. There, fixed it for you.
He looks like someone I would not allow to be around my prepubescent daughter or my dog
That’s why he did it. Confederate christian criminal. It’s his culture.
Who cares he went to church? This is reckless, irresponsible and normalizing. Shame on your company!
He looks like an edgy terrorist.
Does he attend a barbers? It’s equally pointless and fucking irrelevant
The news and media going out of thier way to paint a white, domestic terrorist as a boy who had a bad day is fucking disgusting.
you are fucking awful to have that headline.
Wtf, did he adopt a dog too? Jeez
So nothing really happens if you live by horse pasture?
Attended church? Not relevant.
What in the actual hell kind of tag line is that? Who cares. Jim Jones started a church! The psycho just killed 8 people. 🤬
Wtf with this headline?
I don't attend church and I know not to kill people
Who is the copy editor / writer for these headlines?
Really gonna open with the church attendance huh
His church seems to be implicated in his motives, since he apparently had loads of guilt about having a sex drive. It also apparently didn't inform him that murderous misogyny and racism were not, you know, What Jesus Would Do.
What is this trash? Him being a church goer means zero with regards to what happened yesterday. Most people who attend church also manage not to murder people.
Hey Reuters he just killed 8 people! No one fucking cares if he went to church!
Is his church where he learned to hate women enough to kill them?
Deactivate the account 💕
I think the man shouting 'death to all Asians,' is far more newsworthy than, he attended church!
He’s a terrorist no one cares he went to church, still killed 8 random people.
Peak white privilege on full display here . SHAMEFUL HEADLINE.
He attended church? WTF? How is that fucking relevant?
Attended church? Who gives a flying f if he attended church. People can look at the picture y’all. white
Attended church? While in the past that tended to suggest someone with a moral compass, empathy, compassion.....Today it means heads up....potential kool aid drinker, death cult member.....
Who tf thought this was a good headline? NathanPLayne RichMcKay101 if your editors or Twitter people forced this headline, now would be a great time for y’all to speak tf up.
WHAT the living HELL on Earth that is the United States do you wish you are doing, ? You would be the one writing that a black person who was killed had just bought pot. This is infuriating!!! REMOVED THIS - Racist 🤬
Who the fuck cares?!?!
Led an active, outdoorsy lifestyle
So the fuck what? He's a racist price of shit.
ok well he won’t be attending again and he will be relocating as well
This. Headline. Is. Crap. Be better.
NO ONE CARES if he attended church, he killed people
Who wrote this!!! Unbelivable!!
Which church? Our Lady of Perpetual Helplessness?
no don't do that
One wonders what was happening at that church
Delete this fucking horseshit right now
So that's where he was radicalized!
you misspelled “terrorist”
SO WHAT!!!!?
Whichever editor picked the headline for this should lose their job
I don't care if he bottle-fed kittens for a living.
I could give less of a fuck he’s a terrorist
How dare you make the victims inconsequential objects and humanize the one who murdered them for being inconsequential objects.
Who fucking cares?
Delete this. Fire your headline writer.
Everyone one of you that worked on this piece are white supremacists or white supremacy lovers. You are all sick.
He killed eight people. Don’t tell me about his church
You fucking suck for this.
Church?
whoa, it’s almost like participating in organized religion has nothing to do with actually being a non-violent, anti-racist soul
what the actual f$ . Shame.
WTF kind of a headline is this BS? Stop doing this. You are helping, encouraging & empowering white supremacy with asinine headlines like this.
'just a good church guy having a bad day....' FUCK YOU
What in the possible hell does it matter that he went to church? Did he learn to be a killer at church?
Wow, I bet he has a dog & was nice to the neighbors too. Going to church or believing in god doesn’t make you a good person. He is a murderer Reuters who targeted women because he couldn’t control his own sexual urges. Do woman deserve to be murdered when men have bad days
REUTERS, 1944: 'Sad painter who once pet a dog and gassed millions of Jews loved his gran-gran very much.'
So that is where he learned murdering women is ok, right? That’s why it’s in the headline? I get it now!
“Georgia domestic terrorist...” there. Fixed it for yah.
what exactly are they preaching at church? do a story on THAT, Reuters!
Is church where he was radicalized? They do tend to turn out an awful lot of racists and misogynists, don’t they? I can only imagine that’s why this is a headline.
Familiar face
stop trying to humanize this monster
'Pizza, guns, drums, music, family, and God. This pretty much sums up my life. It's a pretty good life.' I’d hope his new life is prison and getting fvcked in the a$$. Oh, maybe he can make his own pizza with crackers, ketchup & prison cheese product.
I don’t give a fuck that he went to church.
damn, this has to be the ugliest mf on earth
The suspect is white so law enforcement treat him with respect. The implicit bias in your headline iOS deplorable.
White supremicist.
The title of this is absolutely disgusting. The writer needs to be fired and rethink everything about their lives.
Who gives a shit
Are. You. On. Crack.
Delete this shit.
You can tell he didn’t get any pussy
I bet his swimming times were really good too
Fuck his church, his god and him...
Absolutely awful headline, Reuters! Whether or not Long attended church is not, at least at this point, connected to his alleged murder of 8 innocent people.
Fuck right off with this headline
lazy headline
A lot of people attend church. Attending church does NOT make a good person. Using church attendance as a fucking measuring stick is the absolute worst.
delete this post yo, you’re being intentionally disrespectful
Fuck him. Fuck you. Fuck this.
Please, I beg of you, don't promulgate this 'nice white boy who went to church, had a bad day' fuckery.
I’m sure he was a good guy with a gun right up until he shot and killed eight people.
STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY
Who cares if he attended church? He’s a terrorist and murderer
we — and i cannot stress this enough — don't give a fuck if he went to church.
A 21 yr old man shoots up 3 asian massage spas, kills 8 people, 6 of whom are asian & you imply it's churche influence. I believe religion has a lot to answer for these days. But to outright point a finger has you sounding a little bit orange slanted.
Who gives a fuck. It didn’t do shit for him.
'What a good boy' 🙄🙄🙄
He murdered 4 Asian women and this is your take? This is institutional white supremacy in action. DoBetter
Shoutout to all of the atheists who have never murdered people.
Did I miss something in the coverage? 🤔Suspect guns down eight women, the majority of his victims were asian women, however he did attend Church. What the hell happened to News Reporters?
Forgot the rest: 'Attended church where he developed a serious neurosis/psychosis about his sexual expression leading to the death of those who helped him with normal human needs, needs quite often made 'dirty' by the church. Or something. Amen.'
'Incel terrorist traveled to 3 separate locations killing 8 people on a murder spree.. Blames religion for his terrorist attack.' Fixed your headline for you.
What did the victims do? What were their lives like
Stop giving whote people guns
prolifemyass
Hopefully he will be jailed for all his life. Terrible killer!
No. Don’t humanize him. How dare you?
What’s your point?
Then start investigating CHURCHES as hotbeds of HATE. Jesus help us ALL
Go ahead, fill out my bingo card. Talk about the shooter before the victims. Call him a boy. Start showing yearbook photos. Start calling it a 'mental breakdown' thus why he was having a 'bad day'. Use 'might' in front of racially motivated. Are we going for 'lone shooter' too?
Is this really all you have to say about him?
Lots of terrible people throughout history have comfortably hid behind church and religion.... like a lot
That’s a murderer right there. Who cares how he wasted his Sundays.
GTH Reuters
Garbage. When the presser says he did this to 'eliminate temptation' it can be assumed he did this BECAUSE of his religion. What's the point of saying nice white boy went to church and had a bad day? He's a murderous piece of shit who's religion made him a monster because: sex.
Well, yeah. Church is a requirement for the domestic terrorism, isn't it?
Another young white male mass shooter. Other countries have young white makes but they don’t have unlimited access to guns and the NRA
Are you fucking kidding me? This is your hot take? He attended church? Is that where he learned to murder?
“attended church”
Thanks for the heads up, I will continue to avoid churches
Why would you mention he attended church? Asians are among the LARGEST demographic of Christians in the world. If he were Asian, would you state he attended church?
JUST SAY HE WAS A TERRORIST AND GO
Terrible headline, . What Fox News reject have you hired?
I've met some of the most wonderful people I've ever known in churches and I've also met some of the most horrible.
Who fucking cares, please stop posting stupid shit
' attended church '....are you trying to imply something ?
What the fuck who cares? I don’t care if he’s nice to old people, hugs puppies and leaves the toilet seat down, he’s a monster
Sounds like a very polite murderer
You won't whitewash this. Not this time.
Is that what made him think it ok to commit a murderous hate crime
Who gives a shit
Bet if he was black, this tweet would read a whole lot different.
So this was also a Christian-extremist terror attack, in addition to being a racist and misogynistic hate crime.
Jeffrey Dahlmer, a Milwaukee man known for his love of refrigeration...... You guys suck. Pick a new profession.....
'attended church'?! C'mon , do better.
What the fuck? Really? This mass murderer went to church? THAT'S WHAT YOU LEAD WITH What's next, his favorite color? Hopes and dreams? This is really bad reporting.
🚨🚨Hey !!! Was he a BOY SCOUT too? 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🚨🚨🚨
R U serious ?
So you're saying his act of racist and sexist terrorism may also be religiously motivated? If so, FBI needs to investigate his church to see if they're radicalizing and training more terrorists.
Listen, you can try to make the murderer look as sympathetic as possible. It will never work.
Nobody cares about that, we care more about the victims, and their communities
Lawd!👀
Another reason people shouldn’t go to church! Indoctrination into hate at its finest.
Poor guy probably having mental issue
The whole point of this was to say that he attended church. Further trying to blame God for this mans despicable actions
Also, George Floyd attended church. That never stopped people like the shooter from saying he deserved to die.
Attending church means nothing it doesn’t make you into a good person.
Yeah...the Trump supporter who committed the hate crime? Yeah.
Praise the Lord and pass the bullits, but just the ones that don't have White supremacist names on them - fascist yankees will and do out, so what's new?
'attended church', 'sex addiction', 'having a bad day'... every theory being thrown around except 'hate crime'.
All this proves is church has zero bearing on if you're a bigoted murderer so we should stop caring who goes to fucking church.
Religious extremism
Who the f cares? Rot in hell.
String his ass up!
What kind if church did he attend?! The adoration of frump?
. this headline is ridiculous and you should be ashamed. He is a murderer. StopAAPIHate
I don't want to her about this man. Tell us about those that he murdered.
Lol they’re just one more word a way from calling him a saint who was doing God’s work.
'attended church'.... You can already see the difference in how this is being put out there early to influence you. I don't care what he attended. Justice must be served and that will also send the message.
“Attended Church” ?!?!?!?! WTH kind of headline is that? Does that absolve him from hate murders? Do better Reuters.
Just because you attend church, doesn't make you a good person. Makes you more likely to judge others of different faith and culture, follow group thinking, and think you can do evil because Jesus died for your sins. 🐑 Love thy neighbor regardless of ethnicity, gender, culture.
Well that explains everything. Lemme guess: Southern Baptist?
Who gives a fuck.
I bet he attend a government funded public school 5x more than he did church. And was most likely on a RX drugs from Big Pharm everyday. But hey, he went to church.🙄
Any news on the 8 people this asshole murdered?
DAYLEE I’ll be an atheist any day.
Religion poisons everything
Hardly in any other news at all !!! racism
I swear. This entire day is just enraging. Look at this f*cking headline.
What specific misogyny did that church teach him? What patriarchy must be dismantled today?
*checks bingo card*
He attended church? What does that matter, despicables of the world attend also
Poor little white mass shooter.
The title is literally insinuating that we should humanize this homegrown terrorist. How insulting.
Okay
Also was a racist fuckwad.
wow reuters are you fucking tone deaf we don't need this shit
Not surprising. Devil goes in churches every Sunday. Inside people who hear it and don’t personally accept it. They walk out and act like they were never there. Weekly occurrence.
Who gives a fuck if he attended church
shut up
Sexual addiction being added to the motive is really a troubling and telling element about him and the victims.
Lmfao I promise you nobody cares
This is why we say that the media is complicit. Look in the mirror, .
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