re: 2 police officers killed serving warrant in Cobb Co., GA

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The suspect was identified as 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock.[29] He was born in April 1999, in Woodstock, Georgia, and was raised in a conservative community. He graduated from Sequoyah High School in the spring of 2017. From fall 2017 to fall 2018, Long was enrolled at the Cumming campus of the University of North Georgia, but he did not earn a degree.[34][41] Long was a hunter[34] and was heavily involved in his Southern Baptist congregation.[42] Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said Long did not have any prior interactions with law enforcement.[43]

Long spent time in HopeQuest, an evangelical treatment facility located near Acworth and down the road from the first spa that he attacked. He was a patient at the treatment center for what he described as "sex addiction", a label used by some for those that cannot control their sexual urges as expected by purity culture.[44][45] He claimed to be "tortured" by his addiction to sex since he was "deeply religious", according to his halfway house roommate.[41][46] His roommate also said that, several times during his stay at the halfway house, Long said that he had "relapsed" and gone to massage parlors to visit sex workers.[46] His parents had kicked him out of their house the night before the shooting due to concerns about his sex addiction, and said he watched internet pornography several hours each day. A report to police said that he "was emotional" after being evicted from his parents' house.[36][46]

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