Georgia health spa shooting: 5 dead after murder-suicide in Atlanta suburb

Shooting ‘not random’ and probably ‘domestic related’

By
Anthony Bond

Last updated at 3:35 PM on 22nd February 2012

A gunman shot four people to death inside a Korean health spa in Atlanta’s suburbs and then killed himself in what police said may have been a case of domestic violence.

Surveillance video showed a man walking into the Su Jung Health Sauna on Tuesday night and getting into an argument with someone, then opening fire, police said.

‘It appears he walked in, had some conversation with one of the victims and the shooting started,’ Norcross Police Chief Warren Summers told WAGA-TV.

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Horrific: Five people have died following a shooting at Su Jung Beauty Health and Sauna in Norcross, Georgia

The crime may have been domestically related

Investigators had finished
interviewing witnesses Wednesday morning, Norcross police Capt. Brian
Harr said. He described the shootings as ‘not random.’

‘It’s probably domestic-related,’ Harr
told The Associated Press, adding that more information would likely be
released later Wednesday.

Yellow police tape surrounded the
stand-alone brick building early Wednesday on a busy highway lined with
strip malls and small businesses..

The spa’s decorative white columns
and white Greek-style statuary faced a parking lot empty except for a
handful of police and official vehicles. The spa was closed.

Shocking: Norcross Police Chief Warren Summers said preliminary evidence suggested the shooting may have been a murder-suicide

Interested: Yong Moon of the Korean Times, photographed the scene with Ann Ran, also of the Korean Times, after horrific crime at a Korean health spa

Police said the dead were three men
and two women.

Four people were found dead inside, and another was taken
to a hospital before being pronounced dead, investigators said.

Investigators say they believe about 20 people were inside the spa when the gunfire began around 8:30 p.m.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation joined the probe, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.

Investigation: Police said the weapon which they believe was used by the gunman was found at the scene. The shooter is believed to be among the dead

‘We actually sent two crime scene
specialists, given the situation out there with the number of people who
were shot and killed,’ Bankhead said.

He said investigators were using 3-D
technology that was designed for architecture and construction jobs and
is now being used in some investigations to recreate crime scenes.

The spa is about 15 miles northeast of
downtown Atlanta, on Buford Highway between Peachtree Industrial
Boulevard and Interstate 85 in Gwinnett County.