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7 dead in mass shooting in California’s

Half Moon Bay; victims reportedly
Chinese farmworkers

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office reported that a suspect was in custody. PHOTO: REUTERS

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SAN FRANCISCO - An Asian farmworker was in custody on Monday after seven of
his colleagues were killed in front of children at two sites in California, as another
mass shooting rocked the state.

Emergency responders were called to farms in San Mateo County, south of San
Francisco, where they were found dead and injured people.

Sheriff Christina Corpus said 67-year-old Chunli Zhao was arrested shortly after the
carnage erupted in a dramatic takedown captured by local TV crews in the farming
region of Half Moon Bay.

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“Today at 2:22pm sheriff’s deputies were dispatched... on the report of a shooting

with multiple victims.

“Upon arrival, deputies located four victims deceased with gunshot wounds.

“A fifth victim also suffering from a gunshot wound was transported to Stanford
Medical Center with life threatening injuries.

“Shortly thereafter three additional victims were also located deceased with
gunshot wounds at a separate shooting scene.”

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Ms Corpus said Zhao then drove to a sheriff’s substation in Half Moon Bay where
ABC7 crews were waiting for a news conference.

Dramatic footage showed an Asian man wearing a red fleece and blue jeans being
pulled to the ground by armed officers.

“Zhao was taken into custody without incident and a semi-automatic handgun was
located in his vehicle,” Ms Corpus said.

The motive for the shootings was not yet known, Ms Corpus said, but it had taken
place in a rural location with families around.

“It’s spread out. There’s people that live at the location as well... it was in the
afternoon when kids were out of school and for children to witnesses it is
unspeakable,” she said.

NBC Bay Area cited a Half Moon Bay city councilman saying the victims are Chinese
farmworkers.

Both farms are on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, and aerial video taken by news
crews shows them with rows of greenhouses.

The new bloodshed came less than 48 hours after a gunman killed 11 people at a
dance studio near Los Angeles.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has been in Monterey Park where that
massacre took place, took to Twitter moments after news broke of the new killings.

“At the hospital meeting with victims of a mass shooting when I get pulled away to
be briefed about another shooting. This time in Half Moon Bay. Tragedy upon
tragedy.”

White House press spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden had
been briefed on the incident.

“He has asked federal law enforcement to provide any necessary assistance to the
local authorities. As more details become available, the President will be updated.”
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