Delaina Yaun and her husband had gone to Young's Asian Massage, a spa in Acworth, Georgia, on Tuesday, when a gunman entered and opened fire.

"They just went to go have some time alone, husband and wife. Just time together," Dana Toole, Yaun's sister, told CNN. "Unfortunately, it went bad. It went bad real fast."

Yaun was killed, one of the nine victims in shootings at three different spas in the Atlanta-area. Of the eight people killed, six were Asian women.

The victims of the Cherokee County shooting were identified as Delaina Yaun, 33, of Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta; Xiaojie Tan, 49, of Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44. One man, Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, survived. The Atlanta victims have not yet been identified.

This is what we know about the victims so far.

Delaina Yaun

Yaun's husband made it out of the spa safely, but she was fatally shot, according to a GoFundMe page.

Toole described her sister as a family-oriented person. Recently married, she was the mother of two children, including an 8-month-old daughter.

"Her family came first. Everything was her family," Toole said. "She had such a wonderful, happy, upbeat personality."

"She was a good person," Toole said. "She didn't deserve that. Nobody deserved it."

Yaun's husband, two children, mother and siblings are all heartbroken and "there's nothing anyone could do to help with the pain," the GoFundMe page states.

Another GoFundMe page called Yaun a "beautiful Angel."

"She has two beautiful babies she is leaving behind," it said. "We just don't know how to do any of this alone."

Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz

Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz was also shot at Young's Asian Massage in Acworth -- the sole survivor of Tuesday's shootings.

His daughter, 9-year-old Yoseline Gonzalez, watched medics load him into an ambulance after the shooting.

"I don't really know what to do. I try to calm myself down," Yoseline told CNN affiliate WGCL, wiping away her tears.

Hernandez-Ortiz was shot in the forehead and the bullet traveled down into his lungs and into his stomach, his wife Flora Gonzalez Gomez said on GoFundMe. He is now in the intensive care unit in the hospital, she said.

According to Yoseline, doctors told his family he was very lucky to have survived. "He is a really good dad," she said. "I don't want him to go."

"Please pray for my family and the (families) that were affected by this shooting," the GoFundMe says.

Six victims were Asian women

Four of the victims were of Korean ethnicity, South Korea's foreign ministry said Wednesday.

"Our government is closely watching the situation, holding a deep interest in the safety of our compatriots overseas," South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong said at a news conference. "We express our deep condolences to the American citizens too."

Activist groups, community members and officials said the attacks heightened existing fear among Asians in the US in the wake of increasing incidents of hate resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.

"It's difficult to ignore the fact that many of the victims were Asian, all of the victims in Atlanta were Asian, in fact, and that he targeted these Asian massage parlors," Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told CNN on Wednesday.

"Regardless of the motivation, given the concerns the community already has in light of all the attacks that we've seen -- particularly against Asian American women and the elderly -- I think this is a reminder that we need to do everything that we possibly can to protect the most vulnerable among us," Georgia state Rep. Sam Park told CNN.

The organizations Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, Asian American Advocacy Fund, 9to5 and Korean American Coalition Metro Atlanta said they are gathering resources and funds for those impacted and the families of the Asian victims.

Flowers lined all three Atlanta locations Wednesday as the victims were remembered. Jessica Lang took a moment to place her hand on the door of Youngs in Acworth after dropping off flowers with her daughter.

Drawings and photographs of parents and children hinted at the grief the families as they mourn parents, siblings, spouses and children.

Deputies found four people shot there shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene and two died at a hospital.

About an hour later and 30 miles away, Atlanta police responded to what was described as a robbery at the Gold Massage Spa on Piedmont Road in Atlanta. Police said they found three people dead.

While there, police received another call of shots fired across the street at the Aroma Therapy Spa, where they found one person dead, Bryant said.

The authorities, seeking to contact next of kin, have not identified the other victims.

Police have a suspect, 21-year-old Robert Long, in custody on charges in relation to the three attacks. Long was arrested 150 miles south of the city, and Bottoms said he was headed to Florida "perhaps to carry out additional shootings."

"It's very likely there would have been more victims," Bottoms said in a news conference at Atlanta police headquarters.