911 Calls Episode 201
911 Calls Podcast
11:59 Media
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
On March 16th, 2021, a 21-year-old man from Woodstock, Georgia, drove to a strip mall in Akworth with a gun he had purchased that afternoon. He parked. He waited. Then he went inside.By the time the day was over, law enforcement in two counties would be working the same case from two completely different directions — and they still haven't reached the same conclusion.Eight people. Three businesses. Two jurisdictions. One defendant who has already been sentenced in one county and is still awaiting trial in the other, five years later.This is the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings. The 911 calls, the manhunt, the press conference that immediately became its own story, and the legal split that turned a single afternoon into one of the most complicated prosecutorial tangles in recent Georgia history.Hugs ❤️=========================================CREDITSNarration – The OperatorResearch & writing – The OperatorCreative direction – The OperatorProduction – The OperatorIntro Music – The Operator...did we mention The Operator? 🙃=========================================SOCIAL LINKSWebsite: https://www.1159media.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/911callsTwitter: https://twitter.com/911CallsPodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/911callspodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@911callspodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@911CallsPodcastPatreon: https://patreon.com/1159media
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 911 calls podcast with The Operator. |
| 0:15.8 | There is a specific kind of man who can walk into a building, pay for a service, receive |
| 0:23.1 | that service for over an hour, and then walk out of the room and start shooting the people |
| 0:29.2 | who just took care of him. |
| 0:32.0 | Unless you're James Bond. |
| 0:33.4 | Most people don't reward decent customer service by giving the room a license to kill. |
| 0:39.4 | That is not a hypothetical. |
| 0:41.3 | That happened, but unlike Bond, this was a guy with the name Long, Robert Long. |
| 0:48.6 | On March 16, 2021, this 21-year-old man drove to a massage parlor in Akworth, Georgia. He parked his Hyundai |
| 0:59.1 | Tucson in the lot. He sat in the driver's seat. He loaded a 9-millimeter handgun. He had purchased |
| 1:05.8 | less than an hour earlier. He drank bourbon. He sat there for another hour. Then he went inside, paid for a |
| 1:14.3 | massage, received the massage, walked back to the restroom, came out and executed four people, |
| 1:22.8 | wounded a fifth. And then he got back in the car and drove 30 miles into Atlanta to do it again, twice. |
| 1:33.4 | That's two more times. |
| 1:35.4 | Eight people dead across three businesses in under two hours, six of them Asian women, |
| 1:41.7 | and within 24 hours a sheriff's captain would stand at a podium |
| 1:45.7 | and describe the man who did this as somebody who was just having a really bad day. |
| 1:52.8 | This is the story of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings. |
| 1:57.3 | And before we get to the calls, before we get to the chaos and the manhunt and the split jurisdiction legal circus that is still unresolved five years later, I need you to understand something about the man at the center of this. |
| 2:11.8 | He didn't snap. He didn't black out. He did not lose control. He sat in a car. He loaded a weapon. He drank. He waited. He walked inside. He paid. Received service from a living, breathing human being. And then he killed her. That is not a man who's lost control. That is a man who made a series |
| 2:37.4 | of calm, sequential decisions over the course of several hours, every one of which moved him |
| 2:44.3 | closer to doing exactly what he intended to do. His church told him his sexual urges were a disease. His rehab facility |
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