Half Moon Bay: Suspect held after another California mass shooting - BBC

The US authorities of California is reeling from its 2nd wide shooting successful days aft a antheral changeable dormant 7 erstwhile co-workers southbound of San Francisco.

The attacks took spot successful the coastal metropolis of Half Moon Bay. The victims were each Chinese-American workplace workers.

Suspect Zhao Chunli, 67, was arrested aft driving to a constabulary station.

It comes arsenic the authorities mourns the decease of 11 astatine Monterey Park - astir six hours southbound eastbound of Half Moon Bay - during Lunar New Year celebrations.

California Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted that helium was astatine a infirmary gathering with victims of the earlier wide shooting erstwhile helium was pulled distant to beryllium briefed astir the 2nd attack, describing it arsenic "tragedy upon tragedy".

The latest bloodshed to deed the authorities took spot astatine 2 farms astir the Half Moon Bay community.

Four victims of the shooting onslaught were discovered astatine a mushroom workplace portion the different 3 were aboriginal recovered astatine a adjacent trucking business. An eighth unfortunate is being treated successful infirmary and is successful a captious condition.

A fig of children who had precocious been fto retired of schoolhouse and lived connected the agrarian spot saw the onslaught instrumentality place, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said.

"This benignant of shooting is horrific. It's a calamity we perceive astir acold excessively often, but contiguous it's deed location present successful San Mateo County," the bureau said.

"For children to witnesser this is unspeakable."

After carrying retired the killings, the fishy drove to a section constabulary presumption wherever his apprehension was caught connected camera.

US quality channels showed Zhao Chunli being pinned to the crushed and arrested by police.

He was recovered with a semi-automatic pistol that whitethorn person been utilized successful the attack, and was co-operating with police, Sheriff Corpus said.

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine told the Associated Press quality bureau that the attacks were committed by a "disgruntled worker".

"We are sickened by today's calamity successful Half Moon Bay," Mr Pine said successful a statement. "There are simply excessively galore guns successful this state and determination has to beryllium a change."

Just hours aft the attack, 7 were injured and 1 idiosyncratic was killed successful a shooting successful Oakland - astir 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Half Moon Bay.

The Half Moon Bay onslaught is the 37th wide shooting successful conscionable 24 days according to US not-for-profit Gun Violence Archive.

They specify a wide shooting arsenic 4 oregon much radical injured oregon killed.

Even arsenic details of the deadly onslaught successful Half Moon Bay were coming in, detectives successful the southbound of the authorities were inactive hunting for a motive for the killings successful Monterey Park.

There, an aged Asian migrant murdered 11 radical successful a suburban creation hall, earlier sidesplitting himself arsenic constabulary closed in.