Man sentenced to life after admitting four massage parlour killings

Robert Aaron Long sits in Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton, Ga., on Tuesday morning, July 27, 2021, before pleading guilty to murder. Long, accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to four of the murders. He was handed four sentences of life without parole. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

A man accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at massage parlours in the US state of Georgia has admitted four murders and was handed four sentences of life without parole.

Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are being prosecuted in a different county in the Atlanta area.