Is it important that the shootings in Atlanta be racially motivated?

So far there is no conclusive evidence that racism was a motive. The shooter has denied it, though the extent to which we can take the word of a mass murderer at face value is debatable. It’s clear he was targeting massage parlors, and Asian women disproportionately work at these places. If it’s found that racism was not the motive, is it still crucial to speak of these shootings as racist in nature?