(CNN)A man suspected of killing eight people at three Atlanta-area spas was headed to Florida “perhaps to carry out additional shootings” when he was arrested Tuesday night, Atlanta’s mayor said Wednesday, citing investigators.His family had helped police search for him, authorities said, perhaps averting further harm that the mayor said “could have been significantly worse.”“It’s very likely there would have been more victims,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said in a news conference at Atlanta police headquarters.And preliminary information indicates that the killings — of six Asian people and two White people — may not have been racially motivated, but instead could relate to the suspect’s claim of a potential sex addiction, Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said at the joint news conference.Conservatives’ Wet-Ass-Preoccupation With ‘WAP’ Leads to an Epic Back-and-Forth Between Cardi B and Candace OwensStill, it was too early to know a motive, Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said. “There’s still a lot more work to be done. … We’re just not there as of yet,” Bryant said.Here’s what we know about the metro Atlanta spa shootings that left 8 deadBecause of the victims’ backgrounds, some public officials had raised fears before Wednesday’s police news conference that ethnicity had come into play, amid rising concerns nationwide about anti-Asian violence during the coronavirus pandemic.Police say Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, is suspected of opening fire at the spas late Tuesday afternoon and early evening, first at a business about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, followed by two more at spas in northeastern Atlanta.Long was being held Wednesday in Cherokee County on four counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault, the sheriff’s office said.He was arrested Tuesday night about 150 miles to the south, in a traffic stop on Interstate 75, authorities said.After his arrest, Long indicated to investigators he believed he had a sex addiction and “an issue with porn,” and claimed to see the spas as “a temptation … that he wanted to eliminate,” Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said at Wednesday’s news conference.

Source: In about an hour, 8 people were killed at 3 Atlanta-area spas. One person is in custody