ATLANTA - Attorneys for Robert Aaron Long, the man convicted in the 2021 Cherokee County spa shootings, have asked a judge to sequester jurors during jury selection in his upcoming capital murder trial in Fulton County.

The backstory:

Long, 25, previously pleaded guilty to killing four people at a spa in Cherokee County and is serving a life sentence without parole. He now faces a separate trial in Fulton County for the murders of four others at two spas in Atlanta on the same day — March 16, 2021.

Long is accused of carrying out a deadly rampage at three spas in Fulton and Cherokee counties. Prosecutors say he admitted to investigators that he was intoxicated and went to the massage parlors because of what he described as a sex addiction. He told authorities he had planned to kill hi

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