California was in mourning for its third mass shooting in just over A week after the seventh more people were killed in Two consecutive shootings.
the latest accidents took place in agricultural establishments in California coast community South of San Francisco, Saturday post attack At a dance hall, 11 people were killed during the Lunar New Year celebrations.
The officers arrested the suspect in Monday shooting, 67-year- Old Chunli Chao, after them found for him in for him car in carpark of said Cristina Corpus, San Mateo County Sheriff.
four people She was found dead A fifth was shot at a farm and officers found three more people killed in another location Several miles away, the sheriff’s office said.
The killings took place on outskirts of the city of Half Moon Bay A city About 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of San Francisco. Corpus said Monday locations It was nurseries, and it wasn’t like that right away clear how They were connected.
the new year Brought shocking series of Mass murder in United State – six in Less than three weeks accounting for 39 deaths.
Three happened in California since January 16, according to a database compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. The database tracks each block killing You know four dead Does not include the offender – committed in United States since 2006.
Officials believe Zhao is a factor in one of Corpus said the facilities and that the victims were also workers. some employees in one Facility lived on buildings and children She said: You may have seen the shooting.
Corpus said officials did not specify a motive for shooting.
Half Moon Bay deputy mayor Joaquin Jimenez said the victims included Chinese and Latino farm workers.
Sheriff’s office first Receive reports of Shooting just Before 2:30 p.m. and found four people dead of gunshot wounds and a fifth person was injured first Scene. Shortly thereafter, the officers found three more people dead From gunshot wounds when a second location Nearby, said Capt. Eamon Allen in a news Release.
about two hours After, after first In response, the suspicious deputy mayor, Zhao, remarked, in for him car parked outside Sub-mayor station in strip mall and arrest him, recognizing car by its license plate.
Video of the arrest It showed three officers approaching a parking lot car with drawn arms. I got chow out of the car, and the officers pulled him to the ground and laid him down in handcuffs, and they carried him away. It was a weapon found in His vehicle officials said. The video was captured by Half Moon Bay resident Katie McHugh who Witnessed arrest.
The Sheriff’s Department believes that Zhao acted alone.
knit community
“We are still trying to understand exactly what happened and why, but it is just Senator Josh Baker said, who Represent area They called it “extremely compact” agricultural. community.
Aerial television footage showed police officers collecting evidence from a farm with dozens of greenhouses.
Half Moon Bay is a small coastal city with agricultural roots, home to about 12,000 people. the city And its surroundings are San Mateo County area a favour for Produce flowers as well as vegetables like Football. interrupt allows Hemp cultivation in specific places.
majority of whites community and about 5% of the population She is Asian, according to census data.
“We are tired of today’s tragedy in Half Moon Bay, Pine said. “We didn’t even have time to grieve for those who lost in Terrible shooting in Monterey Park. Gun violence must stop.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted that he was “attending the hospital meeting with victims of Mass Shooting When I was removed to be briefed on another shooting. this time in Half moon, main part of a building. Tragedy upon tragedy.”
On January 16, tween mother Which baby were among six people killing in shooting a home in California’s Central Valley.
