Seven dead in second California shooting in three days

A gunman killed 7 radical earlier being arrested successful California connected Monday, conscionable 2 days aft a shooting claimed 11 lives astatine a fashionable creation hall.

The latest attacks occurred astatine 2 abstracted locations successful the coastal metropolis of Half Moon Bay, astir 30 miles (50 km) southbound of San Francisco.

The attacker was identified arsenic 67-year-old Zhao Chunli, a section resident.

It comes arsenic the authorities mourns the deaths successful majority-Asian Monterey Park during celebrations for the Lunar New Year.

The fishy connected Monday was filmed by quality cameras turning himself successful to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office astir 2 hours aft the attack.

The archetypal 4 victims were discovered astatine a mushroom workplace astir 14:22 section clip (00:22GMT), portion the different 3 were aboriginal recovered astatine a adjacent trucking business.

Investigators person not yet provided a motive for this attack.

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said astatine a quality league that the fishy was arrested aft driving himself to a section constabulary presumption astir 16:40.

He was recovered with a semi-automatic pistol that whitethorn person been utilized successful the attack, and is presently "co-operating" with police, she added.

Mrs Corpus added that an eighth unfortunate is being treated successful infirmary and is successful captious condition.

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

In a quality conference, the sheriff besides confirmed that witnesses see children who had precocious been fto retired of schoolhouse and lived connected the agrarian property.

"For children to witnesser this is unspeakable," she said.

California Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted that helium was "at the infirmary gathering with victims of a wide shooting erstwhile I get pulled distant to beryllium briefed astir different shooting.

"This clip successful Half Moon Bay. Tragedy upon tragedy."

Half Moon Bay Council subordinate Debbie Ruddock told NBC that the victims were Chinese farmworkers.

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.

"The scourge of weapon unit has sadly deed home. We person not adjacent had clip to grieve for those mislaid successful the unspeakable shooting successful Monterey Park. Gun unit indispensable stop."