Seven people were shot to death yesterday afternoon in San Mateo County, Calif., the local sheriff’s office said, the second mass shooting in the state in three days.
New York Times gathered that the shooting occured around 2:20 p.m. local time at two separate locations about 30 miles south of San Francisco, the authorities said. An eighth person was at a sanitarium with life-threatening injuries.
A suspect, Zhao Chunli, 67, of Half Moon Bay, Calif., was found in his car in the parking lot of a sheriff’s office substation, the authorities said. He was taken into custody “without incident,” an official said, and a semiautomatic handgun was found in his vehicle. The suspect was believed to be a worker at an agricultural nursery, one of the two shooting sites.
Several children were present when the shootings took place. The motive behind the incident was unknown, and as of late Monday not all the victims had been identified, officials noted.
Another victim of the earlier mass shooting in California, in a thriving Chinese American suburb of Los Angeles, died at a hospital yesterday, bringing the death toll to 11.
