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Suspect Chunli Zhao in custody after 7 dead in another US mass shooting
Chinese farmworkers are reportedly among the victims of two related shootings in Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco; China is warning its citizens in the US to avoid places ‘where people gather’.
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- Suspect in custody after shootings in a coastal community south of San Francisco
- Incidents come less than 48 hours after a gunman killed 11 people near Los Angeles
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine said four people were killed at a farm and three at a trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 50km (30 miles) south of San Francisco.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the locations were connected, though Pine said the suspect worked for one of the businesses. He called the suspect a “disgruntled worker”.
San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa tweeted that one shooting happened at a mushroom farm.
The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted just before 5pm that a suspect was in custody.
“There is no ongoing threat to the community at this time,” the sheriff’s office said.
The suspect has been identified as 67-year-old Zhao Chunli, according to KNTV.
Half Moon Bay Council member Debbie Ruddock said the victims were Chinese farmworkers, KNTV reported.
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.”
ABC7 aired footage of the arrest of a man, and said this happened as their crew was setting up outside a police station.
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