Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings 9-1-1 Calls Released

ATLANTA — A pair of 9-1-1 calls from Tuesday’s deadly Atlanta massage parlor shootings describe witnesses and survivors hiding inside.

The two calls for emergency dispatch, released Wednesday by the Atlanta Police Department, provide a view of the immediate aftermath of an attack on two northeast Atlanta businesses that left four dead and one injured.

Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old Woodstock man police have accused of the shooting spree in Atlanta that began an hour earlier Tuesday in Cherokee County, is now in custody. In all, eight people were killed.

The attack was the sixth mass killing this year in the U.S., and the deadliest since the August 2019 Dayton, Ohio, shooting that left nine people dead, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.

Both Atlanta emergency calls reflect the voice of either someone afraid for her life or fearing for the life of a loved one.

In the first call, made at 5:47 p.m. on Tuesday, the caller tells the dispatcher in a hushed voice, “we are at Gold Spa … we are in a robbery.”

The dispatcher has a difficult time getting the suspect’s location from the female caller who tells her, “I don’t know, I’m hiding right now.”

The second call was made at 5:57 p.m. by a person apparently en route to the Aroma Therapy Spa.

“I just got a call from one of my friends and she said some guy came in and you know we hear the gunshots and some lady is passed out in front of the door,” the caller said. “Everybody is scared and they are hiding.”