"My mother, Hyun Jung Grant (maiden name Kim), was one of the victims of the shootings in Atlanta, Georgia at Gold Spa," reads the GoFundMe page from Randy Park.
The fundraising page launched with a goal of $20,000, it has garnered more that $1.5 million, as of Friday afternoon.
Park learned of his mother's death while at home playing video games, according to the Daily Beast. He lives just a few miles from the spa where she was shot and killed.
Wednesday, Robert Aaron Long, 21, was charged with the shooting deaths of eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent. Four were killed at Young's Asian Massage in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta, and four others were shot and killed at two Atlanta businesses, Gold Spa and Aromatherapy Spa.
"You see this stuff in TV shows and movies," Park told The Daily Beast. "It's surreal. But I have a younger brother that I have to take care of now, so as much as I want to be sad and grieve—and I am super sad—I have no choice but to move on. To figure out the whole living situation for probably the next year with my brother."
The GoFundMe was set up by Park to help pay for daily expenses and to eventually bury his mother.
"This is something that should never happen to anyone. She was a single mother who dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I. It is only my brother and I in the United States. The rest of my family is in South Korea and are unable to come. She was one of my best friends and the strongest influence on who we are today. Losing her has put a new lens on my eyes on the amount of hate that exists in our world," 23-year-old Park says on the GoFundMe page.
Long told police the attack wasn't racially motivated, but that he had a "sex addition" and he wanted to eliminate it.
"That's bulls***," Park told The Daily Beast.
"My question to the family is, what did y'all teach him?" he added. "Did you turn him in because you're scared that you'll be affiliated with him? You just gonna scapegoat your son out? And they just get away scot-free? Like, no, you guys definitely taught him some shit. Take some f***ing responsibility."
Investigators say it's too early to rule out a hate crime.
