Atlanta shootings: Asian women among eight killed at three spas

Eight people, including at least six Asian women, have been killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia.

Police said four people were killed at a massage parlour in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta, and four more at two spas in the city itself.

Officials said a 21-year-old man had been arrested and was believed to be the suspect in all three attacks.

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① parlour n.(提供服务而不卖货物的) 店堂

• funeral parlour 殡仪馆
• beauty parlour 美容院；美容室
• massage parlour 按摩院；按摩室

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美国乔治亚州三个不同的温泉疗养中心发生枪击事件，造成8人死亡，其中至少6名亚裔女性。

警方表示，4人死于亚特兰大北部郊区阿克沃斯的一家按摩院，其余4人死于亚特兰大的两家疗养中心。

官方称已经逮捕了一名21岁男子，认定该男子为以上三起枪击事件的嫌疑人。

No motive for Tuesday's shootings has yet been established.

However, hate crimes against Asian-Americans have spiked in recent months, fuelled by rhetoric that blames Asian people for the spread of Covid-19.

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① spike n.长钉；钉鞋；细高跟；vt.阻止；以大钉钉牢；用尖物刺穿

② rhetoric n.修辞，修辞学；虚华词藻；adj.花言巧语的

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周二枪击事件的动机尚未披露。

然而，在人们将新冠病毒归咎于亚洲人的言论推动下，近几个月来针对亚裔人民的仇恨犯罪激增。

In an address last week, President Joe Biden condemned "vicious hate crimes against Asian-Americans who have been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated."

The first shooting happened at about 17:00 (21:00 GMT) at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor in Acworth, Cherokee County.

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① condemn v.谴责; 责备

② vicious adj.凶残的；恶毒的

③ harass v.骚扰

④ scapegoat n.替罪羊；v.使成为替罪羊

Ø ...a climate where ethnic minorities are continually scapegoated for the lack of jobs and housing problems. …一种屡屡把缺少工作职位和住房问题归罪于少数族裔的风气。

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在上周的一次发言中，美国总统拜登谴责“针对亚裔美国人实施的攻击、骚扰、指责，以及将病毒归罪于亚裔美国人等恶性仇恨犯罪行为”。

第一起枪击案大概发生于17:00（英国时间21:00），切罗基县阿克沃斯的一家杨氏亚洲按摩院。

Sheriff's office spokesman Capt Jay Baker said two people died at the scene and three were taken to hospital, where two more died. He later confirmed that the victims were two Asian women, a white woman and a white man, and that a Hispanic man had been wounded.

Less than an hour later, police were called to a "robbery in progress" at Gold Spa in north-east Atlanta.

"Upon arrival, officers located three females deceased inside the location from apparent gunshot wounds," police said in a statement.

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警长办公室发言人杰伊·贝克上尉（Jay Baker）表示，两人当场死亡，另外三人送往医院后，其中两人不治身亡。他后来证实，受害者中有两名亚裔女性、一名白人女性和一名白人男性，另有一名西班牙裔男性受伤。

不到一小时后，警方接到报警称在亚特兰大东北部的黄金水疗中心“正在发生一起抢劫案”。

警方在一次声明中表示，“到达现场后，警方发现三名明显因受到枪伤而死亡的女性”。

While there, officers were called to a spa across the street, called Aromatherapy Spa, where they found another woman shot dead.

Police quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said that all four Atlanta victims were Asian women.

Investigators who had studied CCTV footage then released images of a suspect near one of the spas. Police said that, after a manhunt, Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested in Crisp County, about 150 miles (240km) south of Atlanta.

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① manhunt n. (对逃亡者或失踪者的)追捕; 追踪

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在黄金水疗中心警方再次接到报案，在街对面的一家香薰水疗馆发现一名女性枪击身亡。

《亚特兰大宪报》援引警方的说法：亚特兰大的四名死者都是亚裔女性。

调查人员对监控录像进行研究，随后发布了嫌疑人在其中一家水疗中心附近的图像。警方表示，经过搜捕，乔治亚州伍德斯托克市的罗伯特·亚伦·朗（Robert Aaron Long）在亚特兰大以南150英里(240公里)的克里斯普县被捕。

Capt Baker said investigators were "very confident" that the same suspect was the gunman in all three shootings.

Authorities say it is too early in the investigation to know if the victims were targeted because of their race or ethnicity.

However, the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate [Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders] called it "an unspeakable tragedy".

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① ethnicity n. 种族划分

② advocacy n. 主张；拥护；辩护

③ Stop AAPI Hate 停止仇恨亚太裔

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贝克上尉表示，调查人员“非常确信”三起枪击案的凶手是同一个嫌犯。

当局声称，现在确定受害者是否因种族或民族原因而成为袭击目标还为时过早。

然而，“停止AAPI仇恨（亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民）”组织称，这是一起“难以形容的悲剧”。

"Right now there is a great deal of fear and pain in the Asian American community that must be addressed," it tweeted.

Ben Crump, a leading civil right lawyer, also took to Twitter, saying: "Today's tragic killings in #Atlanta reaffirm the need for us to step up and protect ALL of America's marginalised minorities from racism."

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① marginalised 使..边缘化，受排挤

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停止AAPI仇恨组织发推表示，“现在亚裔美国人群体中蔓延着极大的恐惧与悲伤，这必须予以解决”。

知名民权律师本·克伦普（Ben Crump）也发推声称，“今天在亚特兰大发生的这一悲剧事件再次表明，我们需要要采取行动，保护美国所有被边缘化的少数族裔免受种族歧视。”