The son of Atlanta shooting victim Hyun Jung Grant said she 'worked almost every day' to support her kids

• Hyun Jung Grant worked "almost every day" to support her two kids, her oldest son told the Associated Press.
• Grant's son set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to support him and his younger brother.
• There, he described his late mother as "one of my best friends."

Hyun Jung Grant, one of the eight victims of the Atlanta-area shootings from earlier this week, was a dedicated mother who "worked her ass off" for her kids, her oldest son said.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Grant's son Randy Park said she had been an elementary school teacher in Korea but had begun working at a spa for "regular immigrant reasons" when she arrived in the US.

"And here in America, she did what she had to do," Park said. "She was a single mother of two kids who dedicated her whole life to raising them."

Grant worked at Gold Spa, one of three destinations hit in a string of deadly shootings Tuesday night.

Speaking with the Associated Press, Park said his mom worked "almost every day" to support him and younger brother.

Park set up a tribute to his mother on GoFundMe to cover living expenses for the two siblings, as well as funeral and legal fees for her mother.

Park in the GoFundMe wrote that his mother was "one of my best friends," adding that she had "dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I."

The GoFundMe has so far raised $2.4 million.

Robert Aaron Long Long, a 21-year-old from Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested in connection to the string of deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. In conversations with the police, Long said the attacks were due to a sex addiction and were not racially motivated.

Six out of eight of the victims were Asian women. Each attack had taken place at three separate Asian-owned massage parlors within an hour of one another on Tuesday.

Police caught Long after a short car chase around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night.

Long on Wednesday was charged with eight murder counts and one count of aggravated assault in connection to the three attacks. He was charged with four counts of murder in Cherokee County, where he is from, and four more counts of homicide in Atlanta, where he traveled after the first attack.

So far, the determination is that the crime may not have been racially motivated, Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said earlier this week.

"It may be targets of opportunity," Reynolds added. "Again, we believe that he frequented these places in the past and may have been lashing out."

A local Korean news outlet, however, reported that Long shouted, "I want to kill all Asians" as he fired at the victims.