The suspect in a deadly mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California, was charged with seven counts of murder, the local district attorney said.
Authorities believe Zhao acted alone Monday when he entered a mushroom farm where he worked in Half Moon Bay, shot and killed four people and seriously wounded a fifth. He then drove to a nearby farm where he worked previously and killed three more people, said Eamonn Allen, a sheriff’s spokesperson.
The San Mateo County Coroner's Office has named six of the victims: Zhishen Liu, 73, of San Francisco; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, of Moss Beach, California; Aixiang Zhang, 74, of San Francisco; Qizhong Cheng, 66, of Half Moon Bay; Jingzhi Lu, 64, of Half Moon Bay; and Yetao Bing, 43, whose hometown was unknown. The charging documents identify Jose Romero Perez as the other person killed and Pedro Romero Perez as the eighth victim, who survived the shooting.
"He was a good person. He was polite and friendly with everyone. He never had any problems with anyone. I don’t understand why all this happened," Martinez Jimenez said in Spanish. San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine described Zhao as a"disgruntled worker," KRON reported.and has lived in the United States for at least a dozen years, Wagstaffe said. He had legal paperwork to live in the country at one time and investigators are determining whether it is still valid, Wagstaffe said. They were also looking into his prior contact with law enforcement.
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