Half Moon Bay news

The police arrested a 67-year-old suspect, who the county sheriff said was “fully cooperating.”

A volunteer asked a police officer standing guard at the door what size diapers they needed. Sheriff Corpus said the police believed the suspect was a worker at the plant nursery where one of the attacks occurred. Sarah Prentice, 31, started crying while on her way to the center to drop off blankets. Video of the substation parking lot where the suspect was arrested shows three police officers pulling him from a maroon S.U.V. Lorena González Fletcher, president of the California Labor Federation, said that many farmworkers in the region were in a vulnerable position because they have low wages and are often on temporary work visas or are undocumented. The gunman drove from one site to the other, she said, and a semiautomatic handgun was found in his vehicle. The sheriff’s office said late Monday that it was working to identify the victims and notify their families. “The amount of stress that’s been on this community for weeks is really quite high.” The beaches are a popular surfing destination, and the inland mountains are home to one of the state’s oldest agricultural communities, which employs migrant workers. There were children on the scene at the incidents. The local authorities were working with the F.B.I. Eamonn Allen of the sheriff’s department.

Seven people were killed Monday at plant nurseries near Half Moon Bay, 30 miles south of San Francisco, days after a rampage in Southern California.

[VICTIMS REMEMBERED: ] [Families remember those slain in Monterey Park mass shooting: 'Our biggest cheerleader,' the 'life of any party'](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/23/monterey-park-california-shooting-victims-identified-list/11105457002/) [Where is Half Moon Bay?] [Half Moon Bay is a coastal community of about 12,000 people 30 miles south of San Francisco. [HORROR AND HEROISM: ] [In Monterey Park shooting, ballrooms became the scene of sudden horror, stunning heroism](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/24/monterey-park-shooting-my-nhan-huu-can-tran-brandon-tsay/11106243002/) [Biden offers prayers, pushes for gun control legislation] [President Joe Biden issued a statement saying he and wife Jill were praying for the victims. Some workers at one facility lived on the premises and children may have witnessed the shooting, Corpus said. She said it wasn’t immediately clear how the two locations were connected.] [Suspect in custody, 'no threat' to community] [A suspect, Chunli Zhao, 67, a resident of Half Moon Bay, was taken into custody "without incident" from his car in the parking lot of the Half Moon Bay Police Substation more than two hours after deputies arrived at the first shooting scene, Sheriff Christina Corpus said. [7 dead in two related incidents in California; suspect arrested](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/23/half-moon-bay-shooting-victims-authorities/11109329002/) [Victims were Chinese, Latino farmworkers] [The Sheriff’s Office first received reports of a shooting just before 2:30 p.m. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said four victims were found dead at the first shooting scene and a fifth person was transported to the Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

Investigators on Tuesday were still trying to determine the motive behind a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay that left seven farmworkers dead and one ...

"Jill and I are praying for those killed and injured in the latest tragic shooting in Half Moon Bay, California. Following a briefing from my homeland security team, I have directed my administration to ensure local authorities and the broader Half Moon Bay community have the full support of the federal government in the wake of this heinous attack. For the second time in recent days, California communities are mourning the loss of loved ones in a senseless act of gun violence. "Yesterday, Senator Feinstein — alongside Senators Murphy, Blumenthal and others — reintroduced a federal Assault Weapons Ban and legislation that would raise the minimum purchase age for assault weapons to 21. President Joe Biden on Tuesday released a statement addressing the Half Moon Bay mass shooting, saying in part: "Jill and I are praying for those killed and injured in the latest tragic shooting in Half Moon Bay, California. in the parking lot of a San Mateo County sheriff's substation in Half Moon Bay after a deputy spotted his vehicle.

Two of the seven victims killed in the shootings in Half Moon Bay have been identified and authorities are working to notify the families.

“Here in San Mateo County, he wasn’t a red flag for us, nothing to put him on our radar,” she said. The weapon believed to have been used in the incident, a semiautomatic handgun, was found inside his car. Jail records showed the suspect was being held in San Mateo County’s Maguire Correctional Facility. Video from KGO-TV showed deputies taking a man to the ground in the parking lot. Police arrested the suspect, identified as Chunli Zhao, 67, after he was discovered in his car at the San Mateo County sheriff’s substation in Half Moon Bay at about 4:40 p.m. “All the evidence we have points to this being the instance of workplace violence.”

The US has already suffered at least 39 mass shootings this month -- more than any other start of the year on record.

“Our hearts are with the victims, their families and the Chinese American community – from Half Moon Bay to Monterey Park.” “This is something that we get to watch on the news. “Today, we are the news. “The only known connection between the victims and the suspect is that they may have been coworkers.” Both cases share ties to the Asian American community. [deadly flooding](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/weather/california-flooding-atmospheric-river-tuesday/index.html) that stretched across large swaths of the state. [ban assault weapons](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/politics/biden-assault-weapons-mass-shootings/index.html), he said in a statement, adding: “We know the scourge of gun violence across America requires stronger action.” “We do know is that some of the victims were Chinese, that the perpetrator was Chinese and that this was an agricultural community – they were agricultural workers,” Half Moon Bay Mayor Deborah Penrose said Tuesday. [Monday evening in Oakland](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/us/oakland-shooting-california/index.html). [in the Half Moon Bay area ](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/half-moon-bay-california-shooting-1-24-23/index.html)near San Francisco; [people killed](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/us/iyw-how-to-help-monterey-park-shooting-victims/index.html) after a gunman opened fire [at a dance studio](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/us/monterey-park-california-mass-shooting-tuesday/index.html) in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles; [39 mass shootings](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting) this month – more than [any other start of the year on record](http://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/us/monterey-park-california-mass-shooting-monday/index.html).

The Governor yesterday and on Sunday met with Monterey Park victims, their families, local officials and community members in the wake of the mass shooting ...

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