Chilling 911 calls after Robert Aaron Long opened fire reveal cries for help: 'Please hurry, they have a gun'
Just a day after Robert Aaron Long 'shot eight people dead' in an Asian massage parlour shooting spree, cops have released the chilling 911 calls from the 21-year-old gunman.
Long allegedly gunned down eight people at three different massage parlor locations in Atlanta, Georgia on March 16, and has seen been charged over the attack. Seven of his victims were women, and six of them were of Asian descent. The first audio of the call made to 911 was at 5:47 pm from a woman inside the Gold Spa, one of the locations Long went on his rampage. In a one-minute and 50-second clip, the call shared on YouTube can hear the woman asking a 911 operator to 'please hurry'. When asked the description of the suspect, the woman clarifies: "We’re hiding right now, that’s why. They have a gun.." The witness continued "We need an ambulance here... we need police here."
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The caller mentioned a robbery at the spa but when asked about the whereabouts of the robber, she said: "I don’t know. I’m hiding right now." When asked what the suspect was wearing, she reiterates: "I don’t know please just come. Ok?"
The second 911 call lasted around 4 minutes and came in just 10 minutes after the first one. It was from a woman calling about the just happened horrific incident at the Aromatherapy Spa. "I just got a call from one of my friends and they say some guy came in…. and the lady’s passed out," the second caller told the 911 operator. "Everybody’s scared so they’re hiding." She repeats: "Everybody heard the gunshot and some lady got hurt."
After the attack, Long admitted to the shootings and claimed the massage parlours were "temptation that he wanted to eliminate." Long was arrested on Tuesday night following a three-hour-long car chase, said Cherokee County Sheriff's spokesperson Howard J Baker. Captain Jay Baker shared that Long had been charged with four counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault for the Cherokee County shooting, as reported previously by MEAWW. Charges related to the City of Atlanta haven't been announced yet.
Sheriff Frank Reynolds said in a press conference on Wednesday, March 16, that Long had potential "sexual addiction" issues. A former roommate claimed Long had spent time in a sex rehab clinic also. Sheriff Reynolds added that cops think Long "frequented these places in the past" and that he "may have been lashing out." Although Long claimed the attacks weren't racially motivated, the Atlanta Police Department said Long was on his way to Florida, where he was going to "do similar acts in the state" targeting "some type of porn industry," they claim.
Long will be heading back to Cherokee County for a court hearing on Friday, March 19. Only one of his victims was a man, and two of them were white, cops said. While cops got a call for a "robbery in progress" at Gold Spa, another call went from the same location. Atlanta Police Chief Rodney N. Bryant said that cops "received another call across the street that had shots fired. We responded to that to find another individual was shot at that location." Surveillance video had captured Long pulling up on at same location at 4.50pm, just minutes before the shooting happened. Sheriff's office had also posted images from the footage on their Facebook page asking people to share the content.