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A year after Atlanta spa shootings, ABC's Juju Chang keeps the heat on violence against AAPI community

In the rapid news cycle of 2021, the shooting deaths of eight people including six Asian American women at three Atlanta-area spas on March 16 of that year stood a strong chance of being forgotten. But ABC News anchors Juju Chang and Eva Pilgrim — both of whom were born in Korea — made sure that didn't happen when it was discussed at a network meeting the following day. "We made our case that ...
Atlanta police officers and detectives respond to a shooting at Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa in Atlanta on March 16, 2021.

In the rapid news cycle of 2021, the shooting deaths of eight people including six Asian American women at three Atlanta-area spas on March 16 of that year stood a strong chance of being forgotten.

But ABC News anchors Juju Chang and Eva Pilgrim — both of whom were born in Korea — made sure that didn't happen when it was discussed at a network meeting the following day. "We made our case that this should not go ignored," Chang recalled in a recent interview.

The result of their efforts was "Murder in Atlanta," on a special edition of "20/20" — the only network program to devote a full prime time hour to the

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