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Zhao Chunli was arrested successful transportation with 2 shootings successful Half Moon Bay, Calif., which near 7 radical dormant and 1 critically injured connected Jan. 23. (Video: The Washington Post)
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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Seven radical were killed and 1 was critically injured successful related shootings astatine 2 locations astir this coastal city, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said.
Police arrested 67-year-old Zhao Chunli of Half Moon Bay astir 4:40 p.m. Monday, soon aft uncovering him successful his conveyance astatine the parking batch of a San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office substation. Zhao is believed to person acted unsocial successful the shootings, Corpus said.
Both sites are works nurseries successful a agrarian area, Corpus said, and Zhao is believed to beryllium a idiosyncratic astatine 1 of the locations. The victims, who are inactive being identified by a coroner, are besides believed to beryllium farmworkers, Corpus said. The municipality is astir a 40-minute thrust from San Francisco and has a population of less than 11,400 people.
Here’s what to know
- Four victims were recovered dormant successful the 12700 artifact of San Mateo Road, and 3 much were aboriginal discovered astatine a 2nd tract successful the 2100 artifact of Cabrillo Highway South, Corpus said.
- One unfortunate was being treated for life-threatening injuries astatine Stanford Medical Center, according to Corpus. That person’s presumption was chartless Monday evening.
- The shooting was California’s 2nd wide sidesplitting successful 3 days, aft the play massacre astatine a creation workplace successful Monterey Park that near astatine slightest 11 radical dead.
- Police recovered a semiautomatic handgun from the conveyance of the alleged gunman. It was believed to beryllium the lone limb involved.
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Half Moon Bay suspect, Monterey Park gunman are older than astir U.S. wide shooters
The gunman who killed 11 radical successful Monterey Park, Calif., connected Saturday and the antheral suspected of sidesplitting 7 radical successful the Half Moon Bay country connected Monday are among the oldest suspected wide shooters successful U.S. history, according to the Violence Project, a nonprofit enactment that studies firearm-related bloodshed.
Authorities accidental that 67-year-old Zhao Chunli is liable for Monday’s deadly shootings successful 2 abstracted works nurseries successful the area. They arrested him and are questioning him to find retired his motive.
Half Moon Bay massacre is California’s 3rd wide shooting successful 3 days
California has grappled with 3 wide shootings successful 3 days that person near astatine least 19 radical dead.
Around the tranquil coastal municipality of Half Moon Bay, a brace of related shootings astatine 2 locations Monday killed 7 radical and near 1 idiosyncratic critically injured.
On the other broadside of the San Francisco Bay, successful Oakland, constabulary said 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 7 others injured successful a “shooting betwixt respective individuals” Monday night, with homicide investigators taking implicit the investigation.
And conscionable extracurricular Los Angeles, a gunman killed 11 radical astatine a creation workplace successful Monterey Park connected Saturday.
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Photos: 7 dormant successful Half Moon Bay country wide shooting
Seven radical were killed and 1 was critically injured successful related shootings astatine 2 locations astir Half Moon Bay, Calif., San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said.
Asian Americans talk retired aft different calamity rocks their community
Just days aft 10 radical were killed successful Monterey Park, Calif., which was the nation’s archetypal Asian-majority city, Asian American nationalist figures and organizations took to societal media erstwhile again to talk connected different fatal calamity successful Half Moon Bay.
Alluding to the whiplash created by 2 back-to-back tragedies, Korean American blogger Phil Yu tweeted: “To beryllium clear, this wide shooting contiguous successful Half Moon Bay is an wholly antithetic wide shooting than the different 1 we’re inactive precise overmuch hurting from.”
Others besides struggled to grasp the caller spate of violence.
‘Our hearts are torn retired of our chests,’ politician says of attack
The politician of Half Moon Bay, Calif., said Tuesday that the city’s residents felt similar their hearts had been “torn retired of our chests” successful the hours aft 7 radical were killed and 1 critically injured successful related shootings astatine 2 locations.
When asked connected CNN what it was similar to larn of the shooting successful her metropolis conscionable 1 time aft the wide sidesplitting successful Monterey Park, Calif., that near 11 dead, Mayor Deborah Penrose repeatedly told the anchors that it was “horrific” and that the onslaught “shocked us.”
“Our hearts are torn retired of our chests for each these individuals and families — our neighbors, our friends, the radical that enactment successful our assemblage and unrecorded successful our community,” Penrose said. “We’re a small, agricultural, coast-side town, and we person ne'er experienced thing similar this.”
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Children were among those who witnessed the fatal shootings successful Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said Monday, adding that radical were “living” and “working” astatine the sprawling agrarian location. “It was the afternoon, erstwhile kids were retired of school,” Corpus said. “For children to witnesser this is unspeakable.”
Second Amendment becoming a ‘suicide pact,’ Newsom says hours earlier Half Moon Bay shooting
“This Second Amendment is becoming a termination pact,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CBS News connected Monday, portion walking down the thoroughfare successful Monterey Park, wherever 11 were killed arsenic a effect of a shooting astatine Star Ballroom Dance Studio connected Saturday.
Later successful the day, different wide sidesplitting would instrumentality spot successful his state, sidesplitting 7 successful the Bay Area.
“Nothing astir this is surprising,” helium said successful Monterey Park. “Everything astir this is infuriating.”
Newsom pointed to a “half-dozen” weapon information bills successful California, which is known for choky weapon laws, passed past twelvemonth and vowed helium would “continue to pb the nationalist speech connected weapon information reform.” He cited 2021 statistic from the gun-control advocacy radical Giffords that accidental California’s decease complaint from weapon unit is 37 percent little than the nationalist average.
Biden offers prayers, renews telephone for battle weapons ban
President Biden connected Tuesday offered prayers for those killed and wounded successful Half Moon Bay, Calif., and renewed his telephone for Congress to walk a prohibition connected battle weapons.
“For the 2nd clip successful caller days, California communities are mourning the nonaccomplishment of loved ones successful a senseless enactment of weapon violence,” Biden said successful a connection aboriginal Tuesday, referencing the deadly shooting that took spot successful Monterey Park, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, implicit the weekend.
Biden said helium and archetypal woman Jill Biden “are praying for those killed and injured successful the latest tragic shooting successful Half Moon Bay.”
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The suspect, 67-year-old Zhao Chunli, is “fully cooperating” with constabulary officials portion successful custody, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said Monday. “I person each the assurance that unneurotic we volition get to the bottommost of this and beryllium capable to supply a motive,” she told reporters.
What we cognize astir the Half Moon Bay shooting suspect
Authorities arrested 67-year-old Zhao Chunli of Half Moon Bay successful transportation with the works nursery shootings connected Monday, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said. Here’s what we cognize astir the suspect.
- He was arrested astatine 4:40 p.m. connected Monday aft being located successful a conveyance successful the parking batch of a San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office substation. Video footage of the apprehension shows Zhao, wearing a headdress and a reddish shirt, being wrangled to the crushed by officers and led distant successful handcuffs.
- Authorities recovered a semiautomatic handgun from the vehicle. It was believed to beryllium the lone limb progressive successful the shootings.
- Zhao is believed to person acted unsocial successful the shootings, Corpus said. Officials besides accidental they judge helium worked astatine 1 of the shooting locations.
- Zhao remains successful custody and is “fully cooperating” with officials, Corpus said.
The motive remains unclear, officials said Monday portion appealing to the assemblage to travel guardant with immoderate information.
Map shows locations of the 2 shooting sites
Authorities recovered victims successful 2 abstracted locations earlier arresting the suspected gunman, San Mateo Sheriff Christina Corpus said.
About 2:20 p.m. Monday, she said, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to San Mateo Road little than a mile from Main Street, the busiest portion of Half Moon Bay. They recovered 4 bodies with gunshot wounds, and a 5th shooting unfortunate who was alive.
“Shortly thereafter, 3 further victims were besides located deceased with gunshot wounds astatine a abstracted shooting country successful the 2100 artifact of Cabrillo Highway South,” Corpus said.
‘We volition proceed to turn flowers,’ adjacent workplace vows successful look of tragedy
As quality of the fatal shootings crossed 2 works nursery locations astir Half Moon Bay dispersed connected Monday evening, radical took to societal media to cheque successful connected their favourite farms and those who enactment there. The country is known for its rich cultivation legacy, with fields dotted on the seashore increasing pumpkins, plants, flowers, effect and vegetables.
“I thought astir your workplace erstwhile I heard the news,” 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected the Facebook leafage of Greenhearts Family Farm, located little than 10 minutes distant by car from some shooting sites.
Aerial video shows instrumentality enforcement investigating Half Moon Bay shooting sites
Aerials implicit cultivation facilities successful Half Moon Bay, Calif., the tract of 2 related shootings successful which 7 radical were killed connected Jan. 23. (Video: KGO)
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