The generosity comes amid an alarming wave of hate crimes against Asian Americans across the country\u00a0fueled by racism and xenophobia exacerbated by\u00a0the COVID-19 outbreak and anti-China rhetoric.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grant was among four people identified Friday by the Fulton County Medical Examiner as victims of the fatal shootings at the spas in Atlanta. The three others were identified as Soon Chung Park, 74, Suncha Kim, 69, and Yong Ae Yue, 63.<\/p>\n
Four other people were killed at a spa in Acworth, 30 miles north of the city \u2013 Delaina Yaun, 33; Paul\u00a0Michels, 54, Xiaojie Tan, 49, and Daoyou Feng, 44.<\/p>\n
Six of the victims were Asian-American women. A white man and a white woman also were killed. Robert Aaron Long, 21, is charged with multiple murder counts in the rampage.<\/p>\n
Other GoFundMe pages have raised money for victims. A page for Delain Yaun has collected more than $90,000.<\/p>\n
Randy Park, who spoke with USA TODAY last week,\u00a0said he learned of his mother\u2019s death\u00a0Tuesday shortly after the shooting. He and\u00a0his brother drove the 30 minutes to Gold Spa. He\u2019d never seen where she worked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to go there firsthand, see and hear everything regarding what happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0said his mom was a teenager at heart. She\u00a0loved to hang out with friends,\u00a0go dancing, listen to Dutch DJ Ti\u00ebsto and sing karaoke. She was\u00a0a great singer, he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe dedicated her whole life to raising us and even then she found time to enjoy herself with her friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
To Park, Grant was more than just “mom.” She was filled with kindness and understanding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Thank you everyone and please share whatever care and kindness you have shown here to anyone you know that feels scared or unsure about the world we live in,” he said on the GoFundMe page. “This doesn’t represent even a fragment of how I feel. My mother can rest easy knowing I have the support of the world with me.”<\/p>\n
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