On the evening of Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 33-year-old Delaina Ashley Yaun was shot and killed inside Young’s Asian Massage, a spa in a suburb north of Atlanta. Delaina and her husband, newly married and parents to an eight-month-old daughter and a teenage son, had gone to the spa to relax; they were in separate rooms when a gunman entered shortly before 5 p.m. Delaina was hiding in a corner of a room when she was shot; her husband heard the gunfire but was physically unharmed.

Authorities identified 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long as the shooter. He killed three others at the same location, then drove about 30 miles south and attacked two spas in Atlanta, leaving eight people dead and one wounded in total. Long was arrested the same day after his parents recognized him in released surveillance images and contacted law enforcement. He confessed, saying he targeted spas because of a personal struggle he described as sex addiction and denied a racial motive.

In Cherokee County Long pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and received four consecutive life sentences without parole plus 35 years; prosecutors there said they did not find evidence of racial bias. In Fulton County the Atlanta-area charges include murder, felony murder, domestic terrorism and hate-crime allegations; those proceedings remained in pre-trial status as of early 2026.

Did anyone who knew Delaina or her family attend Young’s Asian Massage that day or notice anything unusual that afternoon?