Atlanta police said they had yet to determine a motive and that it was too soon to say whether the suspect "specifically targeted" victims. On Wednesday, police said that Long had indicated he committed the shootings because of a sex addiction.
Police records showed that officers had targeted two of the spas numerous times over the last decade, appearing to contradict Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' statement this week that, aside from a minor potential theft, they had not been a police concern.