By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-10 23:06:40 | Updated at 2025-03-11 02:54:35
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A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by lawyers for a man accused of killing four women at an Atlanta massage businesses to keep a jury from hearing statements he made after his arrest.
Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville made his ruling at the end of a motions hearing for Robert Aaron Long, who faces the death penalty in the March 2021, killings in Atlanta.
Long is already serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for killing four people at a massage business in suburban Cherokee County, Georgia just hours earlier.
Long’s lawyers were trying to keep prosecutors from using statements Long made to police after he was arrested later that night.
The judge said those statements, as well as statements from his guilty plea in Cherokee County, can be used at trial, though he said he would consider defence objections to parts of the statements.
Long, 25, killed four people at Youngs Asian Massage in Cherokee County on March 16, 2021: Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; Delaina Yaun, 33; and Paul Michels, 54. Authorities said he then drove about 48km (30 miles) south to Atlanta, where he killed three women – Suncha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; and Hyun Jung Grant, 51 – at Gold Spa and then crossed the street and killed Yong Ae Yue, 63, at Aromatherapy Spa.
