Regulation enforcement personnel stand on the scene of a taking pictures on Monday in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Seven folks have been killed in two associated shootings.
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Regulation enforcement personnel stand on the scene of a taking pictures on Monday in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Seven folks have been killed in two associated shootings.
Jeff Chiu/AP
A person killed seven folks at two landscaping nurseries in Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco, on Monday, legislation enforcement stated.
The shooter was believed to be a employee at both one or each places and the victims have been additionally believed to be staff, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus stated.
An eighth individual was at Stanford Medical Middle in crucial situation, she stated.
The suspect was recognized as Chunli Zhao, a 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident, the sheriff’s workplace stated. He’s in custody and cooperating.
The 2 places are a few mile away from one another, the sheriff stated. Regulation enforcement doesn’t have a motive for the taking pictures.
Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the first location round 2:22 p.m. native time and located 4 victims lifeless of gunshot wounds, with a fifth sufferer additionally wounded. Three extra victims have been discovered on the second location quickly thereafter.
Zhao was present in his car within the car parking zone of the Sheriff’s Workplace Half Moon Bay Police Substation at 4:40 p.m. A semiautomatic handgun was present in his car, authorities stated. Zhao acted alone and there’s no excellent risk to the general public, the sheriff’s workplace stated.
“It is a horrific occasion, one which we’d by no means think about would happen in San Mateo County,” stated San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President David Pine. “Gun violence on this nation is at utterly unacceptable ranges and it is actually hit house tonight.”
The taking pictures comes lower than 48 hours after a gunman killed 11 and wounded 9 at a Chinese language-owned ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, a majority Asian American suburb of Los Angeles. The suspect, a 72-year-old Asian man, died by suicide. Authorities would not have a motive for that taking pictures.
