Officials in California said accused shooter Chunli Zhao killed seven people in Half Moon Bay after his supervisor insisted he pay for damaged farm equipment.
Claudia Cowan reports on the arrest of a workplace mass shooting suspect in the small community of Half Moon Bay, California on 'Special Report."Half Moon Bay, California,
is believed to have carried out the shootings over a $100 repair bill for farm equipment, officials said Friday. Chunli Zhao met with his supervisor about the bill on Monday, blaming his co-worker for the damage to a forklift that Zhao was driving when it collided with the co-worker’s bulldozer, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. However, the supervisor insisted that Zhao pay the bill.
Zhao then allegedly shot and killed the supervisor, two co-workers and the wife of one of the victims at Terra Garden. A fifth co-worker was wounded. He then went to nearby Concord Farms, where he had worked previously, and fatally shot three former co-workers, authorities have said. Wagstaffe said Zhao had long been disgruntled over other work-related disputes but that the repair bill may have"lit the candle" for the deadly shooting,
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