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At slightest 7 radical were killed and 1 idiosyncratic earnestly injured aft a gunman opened occurrence astatine 2 abstracted sites successful Northern California connected Monday, authorities said, successful the latest wide shooting to deed the state in a substance of days.
The shootings unfolded astatine cultivation businesses connected the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a coastal metropolis of astir 11,000 astir 30 miles southbound of San Francisco, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus told reporters.
The eighth unfortunate was taken to a section infirmary with life-threatening injuries, Corpus said.
The suspected shooter, identified by authorities arsenic Chunli Zhao, 67, was arrested wrong hours of the archetypal shooting, with video captured by NBC Bay Area showing him surrendering to authorities astatine a sheriff's substation.
Chunli Zhao being arrested connected Monday successful the parking batch of the Sheriff’s Office Half Moon Bay arsenic a fishy for the wide shooting earlier that day.Kati McHughZhao, a nonmigratory of Half Moon Bay, is believed to person been a idiosyncratic astatine at slightest 1 of the locations targeted, Corpus said. "We cognize that helium acted unsocial astatine this time," she said.
A motive successful the wide shooting remained unclear, Corpus said.
The victims person yet to beryllium identified. Corpus said they were believed to beryllium workers astatine the 2 works nurseries, but said that item had not yet been confirmed.
People unrecorded astatine 1 oregon some of the locations, and Corpus said children were contiguous erstwhile the gunfire erupted.
"It was successful the day erstwhile kids were retired of school," she said. "For kids to witnesser this — it's unspeakable."
Deputies were dispatched to the archetypal determination astatine 2:22 p.m. aft a study of a shooting, Corpus said. They recovered 4 radical dormant astatine the concern and 1 idiosyncratic with captious injuries, she said.
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