‘Unspeakable’: Children witnessed deadly Half Moon Bay shootings

Children who had merely been let free from school for the day witnessed the brutal massacre that took left seven ineffective Monday afternoon at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, California, authorities said.

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said the kids, a lot of whom lived throughout the neighborhood of the shootings, had been present as a result of the rampage unfolded on the 2 farms a few mile apart.

“This kind of shooting is horrific; it’s a tragedy we hear about too often,” San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said at a press conference Tuesday. “For children to witness this is unspeakable.”

None of the kids had been injured. It’s unclear whether or not or not the youngsters had been present at one or every scenes.

Authorities have often known as the assault an act of “workplace violence,” and said that the 66-year-old suspect allegedly tried to suffocate a coworker years earlier.

A decade prior to now, mass capturing suspect Chunli Zhao was accused of trying to kill his roommate after the individual didn’t have checks from a job Zhao had quit days sooner than.

After threatening the roommate, Zhao allegedly tried to suffocate him with a pillow, in line with courtroom docs.

“Mr. Zhao said to me, today I am going to kill you,” the roommate, Jingjiu Wang, wrote. “He then took a pillow and started to cover my face and suffocate me.” Wang was able to fend off the assault, in line with a restraining order software program.

Zhao was arrested Monday after he allegedly shot seven people to lack of life at two separate farms throughout the small coastal metropolis. He is believed to have killed 4 people and wounded one at Mountain Mushroom Farm sooner than fatally capturing three totally different people at one different mushroom farm a lot of miles away.

Zhao beforehand labored at every farms sooner than he carried out his deadly assault, in line with authorities.

The massacre was the third mass capturing to make headlines in California this month, happening hours sooner than one specific individual was fatally shot and seven others had been injured in Oakland.

It moreover comes days after 11 people had been killed and 11 others had been injured when a gunman opened hearth on an Asian American neighborhood celebrating the Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, merely exterior Los Angeles.