Half Moon Bay mass shooter Chunli Zhao may have been motivated by $100 repair bill - New York Post

The disgruntled idiosyncratic charged with killing 7 radical astatine 2 mushroom farms in the Northern California city of Half Moon Bay perchance carried retired the rampage implicit a $100 measure for damaged equipment.

Chunli Zhao, 66, told investigators helium was incensed by the measure from his brag for harm to dense operation equipment, sparking his shooting spree, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told the Bay Area News Group connected Friday.

The harm was caused by a collision betwixt Zhao’s forklift and a co-worker’s bulldozer. Zhao insisted that the co-worker was to blasted — but his supervisor told him helium had to pay.

Enraged, Zhao past allegedly changeable the supervisor and co-worker, according to prosecutors.

He past went to the co-worker’s trailer and allegedly killed his wife, earlier shooting 2 much employees astatine the California Terra Garden farm.

Chunli Zhao, 66, opened occurrence and killed 7 radical astatine 2 mushroom farms successful Half Moon Bay, California. AP

Chunli Zhao allegedly opened occurrence connected erstwhile co-workers, including his supervisor who demanded helium wage $100 to repair a breached forklift. AP

The accused gunman past drove to a 2nd mushroom farm, Concord Farms, wherever helium antecedently worked and killed a erstwhile adjunct manager who helium felt wronged by arsenic good arsenic different couple, NBC Bay Area reported.

Zhao opened occurrence successful beforehand of children who had precocious been released from schoolhouse for the day. In an interrogation with the tv station, Zhao elaborate years of bullying and agelong hours connected the farms. He besides said helium believes helium suffers from immoderate benignant of intelligence illness, and was not successful the right caput the time helium committed the shootings.

The alleged gunman told NBC Bay Area helium believes helium has immoderate benignant of intelligence unwellness and was not successful the close headspace the time helium committed the wide shooting.AP

Speaking successful Mandarin from a region jailhouse successful Redwood City, Zhao said helium has been successful the US for 11 years and has a greenish card. He said helium has a 40-year-old girl successful China and lived with his woman successful Half Moon Bay.

Zhao said helium purchased the weapon successful 2021 and was met with nary obstacles erstwhile making the purchase.

The coroner’s bureau has lone named six of the victims killed successful Monday’s shooting.AP

The coroner’s bureau has named six of the victims: Zhishen Liu, 73, of San Francisco; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, of Moss Beach, California; Aixiang Zhang, 74, of San Francisco; Qizhong Cheng, 66, of Half Moon Bay; Jingzhi Lu, 64, of Half Moon Bay; and Yetao Bing, 43, whose hometown was unknown.

The charging documents identified Jose Romero Perez arsenic the different idiosyncratic killed and Pedro Romero Perez arsenic the eighth victim, who survived.