Seven people were killed in a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California on Monday. The suspect, Chunli Zhao, 67, was arrested after he drove into a police parking lot and attempted to surrender.
San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus identified the suspect as Chunli Zhao, 67, and said she worked at the same location as the shooting. Corpus called the place a nursery, and some officials said it housed farm workers. Local journalists described one of them as a mushroom farm.
Four People Died in One Place, Three More Found Nearby
Deputies responding to the call found four people dead and a fifth with serious injuries at the first location in Half Moon Bay, then found three more dead at a nearby location, Corpus said at a news conference.
The rural area was recently hit by a series of heavy rains that caused extensive damage, affecting migrant workers in the area, field workers’ advisers said. A series of tornadoes in the three weeks after Christmas claimed 20 lives across the country.
ABC 7 video from the Bay Area showed the arrest as two men in uniform and a deputy in uniform, with guns drawn, ordered the man out of his car. The suspect got out, was thrown to the ground and searched for weapons. Many uniformed police officers arrived at the scene with long guns.
The suspect is cooperating with investigators but a motive has not been determined, Corpus said. An automatic rifle was found in his car, he added.
This shooting happened a few days after 11 people committed mass murder in the city of Monterey Park in southern California.
