Four years later, Atlanta spa shooting victims remembered

Catch up quick: The victims killed in Atlanta were: Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant and Yong Ae Yue. Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun and Paul Michels all died in the Cherokee County shooting.

• One person survived the Cherokee shooting.

State of play: Robert Aaron Long has pleaded not guilty and faces the death penalty for allegedly killing four Asian women at Gold Spa and Aromatherapy Spa in Atlanta.

• Fulton County prosecutors are also seeking harsher sentencing under Georgia's hate crime law.
• He's currently serving life without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to four murders and other charges related to the attack at Young's Asian Massage in Cherokee County.

The latest: At a hearing Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville said prosecutors could use Long's statements from the Cherokee case.

The big picture: The attack sparked national headlines and has increased awareness about violence and discrimination against Asian Americans.

• "It felt like we could finally talk about it," Angela Hsu, past president of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association, told Axios in 2021. "We were a visible minority, but our issues were invisible to the broader U.S."

Context: The Fulton County case had been delayed due to the pandemic and Glanville's involvement in the Young Thug trial before he was recused, WABE reports.

What's next: The next hearings for the case are set for the end of April, according to the Associated Press. No trial date has been set by the court.