Children Watched As 7 Farm Workers Killed In California Twin Shootings

The brand new bloodshed got here lower than 48 hours after 11 folks had been killed in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles:

An Asian farm employee was in custody Monday after seven of his colleagues had been killed in entrance of youngsters at websites in California, days after a mass shooter killed 11 folks at a Lunar New Yr celebration close to Los Angeles.

The newest bloodshed to hit Asian People in California occurred at two farms round Half Moon Bay, a coastal neighborhood close to San Francisco.

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus mentioned seven folks had been killed and one injured within the twin shootings, and {that a} 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident named Chunli Zhao had been taken into custody.

As the brand new tragedy unfolded, detectives on the southern finish of the state had been nonetheless probing what drove an aged Asian immigrant to shoot useless 11 folks gathered in celebration at a suburban dance corridor — earlier than taking his personal life as police closed in.

Each suspects used semiautomatic handguns of their assaults, and each appeared to have connections to no less than a few of their victims.

Corpus mentioned deputies had been dispatched to 2 nurseries round Half Moon Bay, a rural spot south of San Francisco, mid-afternoon Monday.

4 folks had been useless at one among them and one critically wounded.

“Shortly thereafter three extra victims had been additionally positioned deceased with gunshot wounds at a separate taking pictures scene,” she instructed reporters.

“There’s people who reside on the location as effectively… it was within the afternoon when children had been out of faculty and for kids to witnesses it’s unspeakable,” she mentioned.

Corpus mentioned Zhou then drove to a sheriff’s substation in Half Moon Bay the place ABC7 crews captured dramatic footage of his arrest as he was pulled to the bottom by armed officers.

“Zhao was taken into custody with out incident and a semi-automatic handgun was positioned in his car,” Corpus mentioned.

Stories mentioned the useless are Chinese language farmworkers, and that Zhao had labored at one of many farms.

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