Half Moon Bay shooter: Police arrest man suspected of killing seven in California
Telegraph, 24 Jan 2023
A suspect was arrested on Monday after seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at agricultural facilities in a California coastal community south of San Francisco, police said.
Police arrested 67-year-old Chunli Zhao in connection with the latest shootings after they found him in his vehicle in the car park of a police station, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said.
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has lamented the "tragedy upon tragedy" after seven people were killed in the second US mass shooting in the state in three days.
Mr Newsom, a rising star in the Democrat Party who is tipped to be president, said it felt like the Second Amendment was "becoming a suicide pact" after seven Chinese labourers were shot dead at a farm and a trucking firm in northern California on Monday.
The shooting comes after 11 people - mostly elderly Chinese residents - were killed at a Lunar New Year festival in Monterey Park, southern California on Saturday.
Officials called Saturday's attack the deadliest mass shooting in Los Angeles County’s history.
"This Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact, it feels like," Mr Newsom said.
"California's 37 per cent lower than the death rate of the rest of the nation, and yet, with all that evidence, no one on the other side seems to give a damn. I can’t get anything done in Congress.”
The governor said he was at a hospital meeting with victims of the Monterey Park shooting when he was informed about the second shooting in Half Moon Bay. "Tragedy upon tragedy," he said.
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Police arrested 67-year-old Chunli Zhao in connection with the latest shootings after they found him in his vehicle in the car park of a police station, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said.
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has lamented the "tragedy upon tragedy" after seven people were killed in the second US mass shooting in the state in three days.
Mr Newsom, a rising star in the Democrat Party who is tipped to be president, said it felt like the Second Amendment was "becoming a suicide pact" after seven Chinese labourers were shot dead at a farm and a trucking firm in northern California on Monday.
The shooting comes after 11 people - mostly elderly Chinese residents - were killed at a Lunar New Year festival in Monterey Park, southern California on Saturday.
Officials called Saturday's attack the deadliest mass shooting in Los Angeles County’s history.
"This Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact, it feels like," Mr Newsom said.
"California's 37 per cent lower than the death rate of the rest of the nation, and yet, with all that evidence, no one on the other side seems to give a damn. I can’t get anything done in Congress.”
The governor said he was at a hospital meeting with victims of the Monterey Park shooting when he was informed about the second shooting in Half Moon Bay. "Tragedy upon tragedy," he said.
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