Korean women killed in spas identified

[mainer]

Fulton County Medical Examiner's office identified these women, between the ages of 51 and 74, when asked about victims of the spa shootings: Soon C. Park, Hyun J. Grant, Suncha Kim and Yong A. Yue...

Grant was a single mother "who dedicated her whole life" to providing for her two children, her son Randy Park, 23, wrote on a GoFundMe page in which he said she was a victim of the shooting at Gold Spa.

"She was one of my best friends and the strongest influence on who we are today," Park wrote. "Losing her has put a new lens on my eyes on the amount of hate that exists in our world...


Grant was an elementary school teacher in Korea before moving to the U.S. for what her son called "regular immigrant reasons." She and her two sons were the only members of their family in the country, with everyone else remaining in South Korea.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978742409/what-we-know-about-the-victims-of-the-atlanta-area-shootings

[mainer]

1. women's Ages: 51, 63, 69, 74

These women were granny age.

[quaint]

3. ...and great-granny age.

[Treefrog]

5. Hard to believe how many here were referring to them as prostitutes yesterday.

Really not a good look.

[MineralMan]

7. It's still going on today, right here in GD.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215245229

Disgusting.

THEY ARE MURDER VICTIMS!

[Treefrog]

8. I hadn't seen that as yet. Really sad commentary. I didn't expect this kind of commentary here.

It really makes me wonder.

[MineralMan]

9. I don't wonder at all. Truly.

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. Race based Hate Crime

Of course they said it wasn't a hate crime. Because it was. ANd they knew it. Immediately.

Sex Addiction, my ass. He shot Asians. Where he thought Asians would be.

Christo fascist racist white supremacist xenophobic terrorist.
Pre meditated mass murder hate crime.

[sanatanadharma]

6. America will admit to many sins to avoid saying America has a racist problem

To avoid the label of 'racist', many of USa (sic) accept random violence, family violence, incel violence, gender violence, gang violence, collateral violence, or any old 'the gun went off' excuse to avoid facing the violent truth of racism.

[joetheman]

4. Heart-breaking.

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

[mainer]

11. One was a devout Catholic volunteer for children

Kim was Catholic, and she volunteered by cooking and fundraising for various organizations. One of the causes she was most passionate about was the Global Children Foundation, a nonprofit established in 1998 after the economic crisis in South Korea to help children going hungry due to their families’ financial hardship but that later expanded to help children all over the world.

Family members said she was given the President’s Volunteer Service Award during President Barack Obama’s term for the volunteer work she did in the D.C. area to help feed the homeless.
Kim’s husband used to work at a convenience store and a travel agency but is now retired.

The last time family members saw Kim was last week, when she made a large plate of japchae, a traditional noodle dish, for everyone and sent them off with homemade kimchi.
In a letter that was read to President Biden during his visit to Atlanta this past week, a family member spoke in Kim’s voice. It mentions that Kim voted for Biden, loved her adopted country, and it describes her family with pride.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/20/atlanta-spa-shooting-victims-highlight-struggles-asian-asian-american-immigrant-women-low-wage-jobs/