Seven folks have been killed in an agricultural area of northern California, authorities stated on Monday, the newest shootings to rattle the state in current days.
Two deadly shootings came about at a mushroom farm and a trucking agency on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a coastal neighborhood about 30 miles south of San Francisco, officers stated.
Dave Pine, the president of the San Mateo county board of supervisors, stated that 4 folks died on the farm and three on the trucking enterprise.
Police have arrested a suspect, named as 67-year-old Zhao Chunli, in reference to the taking pictures, Pine stated.
The shootings are being handled as associated, though the connection between the places was not instantly clear. Pine stated the suspect was employed at one of many companies and referred to as him a “disgruntled employee”.
The San Mateo county sheriff’s workplace stated shortly earlier than 5pm that there was “no ongoing menace to the neighborhood at the moment”. Aerial tv photographs confirmed cops gathering proof from a farm with dozens of greenhouses.
The taking pictures adopted the killing of 11 folks over the weekend at a ballroom dance corridor within the southern California metropolis of Monterey Park, close to Los Angeles. It additionally comes on the heels of a taking pictures in California’s Central Valley final week, the place six folks, together with an toddler, had been killed within the small city of Goshen.
“We’re sickened by right now’s tragedy in Half Moon Bay,” Pine stated in a press release. “We have now not even had time to grieve for these misplaced within the horrible taking pictures in Monterey Park. Gun violence should cease.”
Different public figures spoke out in shock concerning the back-to-back killings. “Two hours in the past I joined my colleagues on the Capitol steps for a vigil for the victims of the taking pictures in Monterey Park,” tweeted Marc Berman, a member of the California state meeting. Earlier than we’ve even had an opportunity to mourn them, there may be yet one more mass taking pictures – this time in Half Moon Bay. In my district.”
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, described it as “tragedy upon tragedy”.
“On the hospital assembly with victims of a mass taking pictures once I get pulled away to be briefed about one other taking pictures. This time in Half Moon Bay,” the governor tweeted.
Supply: The Guardian
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