Northern California authorities are investigating a motive after a suspect allegedly killed 7 and critically injured 1 - CNN

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Authorities are moving to fig retired wherefore a 67-year-old antheral whitethorn person killed 7 people successful a tiny coastal metropolis adjacent San Francisco – the 3rd wide shooting to stun California successful arsenic galore days and 1 that left’s different Asian American assemblage reeling.

Just hours aft the fishy successful Monday’s attacks successful Half Moon Bay, Chunli Zhao, was taken into successful custody portion parked astatine a sheriff’s substation with a semi-automatic handgun successful his vehicle, idiosyncratic other was killed and 7 radical injured successful a spray of bullets along a roadworthy successful Oakland, the San Mateo sheriff and Oakland constabulary said.

Following the fatal shooting of 11 radical by a 72-year-old gunman during Lunar New Year celebrations successful Monterey Park, the slaughters pushed the state’s tally of carnage to 19 dormant successful wide shootings successful conscionable 44 hours – and contributed to 39 wide shootings clocked truthful acold this twelvemonth in America’s weapon unit scourge.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had been astatine a infirmary gathering victims of the Monterey Park carnage erstwhile helium was “pulled distant to beryllium briefed astir different shooting – this clip successful Half Moon Bay,” helium said.

“Tragedy upon tragedy,” Newsom tweeted.

“This benignant of shooting is horrific,” San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said Monday nighttime arsenic she elaborate the shootings astatine 2 sites successful the Half Moon Bay assemblage of immoderate 11,000. “It’s a calamity that we perceive astir acold excessively often but contiguous has deed location present successful San Mateo County.”

Investigators were moving with the territory lawyer to interrogation Zhao, of Half Moon Bay, who was cooperating with authorities aft helium was apprehended immoderate 2 hours aft gunfire was reported astir 2:22 p.m., the sheriff said.

“We bash cognize is that immoderate of the victims were Chinese, that the perpetrator was Chinese and that this was an cultivation assemblage – they were cultivation workers,” Half Moon Bay Mayor Deborah Penrose told “CNN This Morning” connected Tuesday.

One shooting unfolded astatine a mushroom workplace and different adjacent a trucking installation astir 2 miles away, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dan Pine said. Officers recovered 4 victims dormant and 1 wounded astatine 1 tract and 3 others dormant astatine the other, Corpus said. Where the shooting began is inactive nether investigation.

The injured idiosyncratic was successful captious information astatine a infirmary Monday night, Corpus said.

The mushroom farm’s owners had nary past cognition of the gunman oregon his motive, they said successful a statement.

“We are shook and precise anxious to summation much accusation from the authorities and their investigations,” Concord Farms said successful the connection to CNN. “Our hearts are with the victims, their families and the Chinese American assemblage – from Half Moon Bay to Monterey Park.”

His ain metropolis inactive dazed by the violence, the politician of Monterey Park offered condolences to Half Moon Bay residents, saying the assemblage is present connected the “long roadworthy of recovery.”

“I cognize what is successful store for them successful the adjacent fewer days,” Mayor Henry Lo said.

The Half Moon Bay assemblage indispensable unite successful healing – and enactment each different to code weapon violence – San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller said.

“There were workplace workers affected tonight; determination were children connected the country astatine the incidents. This is simply a genuinely heartbreaking calamity successful our community,” Mueller said.

Mueller spoke to the intelligence wellness toll the unit has unleashed successful the assemblage and urged radical to question help, particularly arsenic the metropolis has been trying to retrieve from the interaction of caller deadly flooding that stretched crossed ample swaths of the state.

“Please instrumentality vantage of the intelligence wellness situation counseling that is available,” helium said, adding anyone tin scope retired to the county’s hotline. “You are not alone.”

Half Moon Bay Vice Mayor Joaquin Jimenez besides urged residents to question intelligence wellness counseling.

“This is thing that we get to ticker connected the news. Never deliberation that it’s gonna travel and deed home,” Jimenez said. “Today, we are the news. Our assemblage has been affected.”