‘Tragedy after tragedy’: California experiences second mass shooting in 3 days

A gunman killed seven people at two Northern California farms, once again plunging the state into mourning after the second massacre in three days.

The sheriff’s office first received reports of the shooting on Monday afternoon and found four people dead and a fifth injured at a mushroom farm. Officers then found three more people shot dead nearby at the second scene, Captain Eamonn Allen said in a press release. The wounded victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

About two hours later, a sheriff’s deputy noticed the perpetrator’s car parked near the sheriff’s substation at the mall and arrested him. He was identified as 67-year-old Chunli Zhao.

Video of the arrest shows three policemen approaching a parked car with their weapons drawn. The shooter got out of the car, the officers threw him to the ground, handcuffed him and took him away. A weapon was found in his car, officials said. The video was filmed by Cathy McHugh, a Half Moon Bay resident who witnessed the arrest.

Officials believe the shooter worked at one of the facilities and that the victims were also workers. San Mateo County Sheriff Cristina Corpus. Officials have not determined a motive for the shooting. Corps said it was not immediately clear how the two sites were connected.

Half Moon Bay Vice Mayor Joaquin Jimenez said Chinese and Hispanic farm workers were among the victims. According to her, some workers lived at one of the facilities, and the children could have witnessed the shooting.

“It was in the afternoon when the kids weren’t going to school,” Corpus said. “For children to see this is inexpressible.”

The Sheriff’s Department believes that Zhao acted alone.

“We’re still trying to figure out exactly what happened and why, but it’s just incredibly, incredibly tragic,” said State Senator Josh Becker, who represents the area and called it a “very close-knit” farming community.

Aerial television footage showed police gathering evidence at a farm with dozens of greenhouses.

The NBC Bay Area Investigations Unit is investigating the Half Moon Bay mass shooting and has new information about one of the shooting locations. Candice Nguyen reports.

Half Moon Bay is a small coastal town with agricultural roots and is home to about 12,000 people. The city and surrounding areas of San Mateo County are known for growing flowers as well as vegetables such as Brussels sprouts. Cannabis cultivation is permitted in some areas of the county.

According to census data, it is a predominantly white community, and about 5% of the population is Asian.

“We’re sick of today’s tragedy at Half Moon Bay,” Pine said. “We didn’t even have time to mourn those who died in the horrific shooting in Monterey Park. Gun violence must stop.”

California is still reeling from the attack on the Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, which killed 11 people and cast a shadow over an important holiday for many Asian American communities.

Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said investigators have not yet determined why Huu Kang Tran, 72, gunned down patrons Saturday night at a Monterey Park ballroom where tens of thousands attended a Lunar New Year celebration earlier this evening. Tran later committed suicide when the police approached him.

“What pushed the madman to this? We don’t know, but we’re going to find out,” Luna said.

A security camera at the Alhambra Dance Hall, California, captured the moment a man wrestled with the Monterey Park shooter, minutes after the shooter killed 11 people on Saturday.

Brandon Tsey, who works part-time at another dance club founded by his grandparents, was able to disarm the criminal and prevent another tragedy at the second location.

“He looked at me and looked around, not hiding that he was trying to cause harm,” Tsai told the New York Times. “His eyes were menacing.”

Tsai told the Times that he did not recognize the man. He was also unaware of the tragedy that had just unfolded a few minutes earlier at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio about 2 miles to the south.

The man, who said he was a longtime friend of Tran, told the Associated Press that the shooter once frequented a dance hall and another, whom he also harassed and complained about how he thought people treated him there.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted that he was “in a hospital meeting with mass shooting victims as I am being taken away to brief on another shooting. This time in Half Moon Bay. Tragedy after tragedy.

According to the Archive of Gun Violence, mass shootings are defined as events in which at least four people were injured or killed, not counting the shooter.