On March 16, 2021, Xiaojie Tan, 49, was one of four people killed at Young’s Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, when a gunman opened fire inside the business. Tan, an entrepreneur who owned the spa and was nearing her 50th birthday, died alongside Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33, Paul Andre Michels, 54, and Daoyou Feng, 44; another person was injured in the attack. The shooter then drove to Atlanta and killed four more people at two other spas before being arrested later the same day in Crisp County after his parents identified him from released surveillance footage and alerted police.

The shooter, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, told investigators he acted because of a sex addiction and denied racial motives. Six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent, a fact that prompted public debate over whether the attacks were hate crimes. In Cherokee County, Long pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and related charges and received four consecutive life sentences without parole on July 27, 2021. Fulton County prosecutors have filed death-penalty charges and hate-crime enhancements in the killings that occurred there; those Fulton County proceedings remain pending.

Does anyone have memories of Xiaojie Tan, her business, or details about that day that could add context to her life and the victims at Young’s Asian Massage?