Hyun Jung Kim Grant was a 51-year-old single mother of two sons and a former elementary school teacher in South Korea who emigrated to the United States. Her family remembered her for a love of dancing and music and for working tirelessly to provide for her children.

On the evening of March 16, 2021, a gunman entered the Gold Spa in Atlanta and opened fire. Grant was one of eight people killed that day in shootings at three Atlanta-area spas; the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed she died from a gunshot wound to the head. Six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent.

Twenty-one-year-old Robert Aaron Long was taken into custody the same day and admitted to the killings, saying he acted out of a claimed sex addiction and desire to eliminate temptation. Prosecutors in Fulton County were pursuing hate crime enhancements for the Atlanta deaths; Long had pleaded guilty in July 2021 to four murders at an Acworth spa in Cherokee County and received four consecutive life sentences without parole. The Fulton County case was pending pre-trial as of early 2023.

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