Atlanta Spa Shootings

Content note: this entry describes racial and gender-based violence.

A gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area spas; though the shooter denied a racial motive, the attack became a flashpoint amid a surge of anti-Asian violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Communities

• Korean American
• Chinese American

Event type

• racial violence
• violence

Regions

• pan-Asian

Identity lens

• women