21-year-old Robert Aaron Long has been charged with eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault, after being held in Cherokee County.
Authorities say nothing he told them in interviews indicated he was motivated by racial animosity, but they stress the investigation is in its early stages.
Activist and founder of Chinatown Block Watch, ((mr)) Karlin Chan, says what happened in Georgia was an act of domestic terrorism.
"This has been building for a long time, well over 150 years since the Chinese set foot in California back in the 1800s. There's always been resentment against Chinese. There's always been racism against us but it's been suppressed."
Vice President Kamala [[KAH-muh-luh]] Harris is urging Americans to stand up against violence.
"It is tragic. Our country, the president and I and all of us, we grieve for the loss. Our prayers are extended to the families of those who have been killed. And it speaks to a larger issue, which is the issue of violence in our country and what we must do to never tolerate it and to all of us speak out against it."
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