HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A 67-year-old “disgruntled worker” shot and killed four people at a coastal farm and three more people at a nearby trucking business near the heart of Half Moon Bay on Monday afternoon, authorities said, marking the state’s second mass shooting targeting Asian Americans just two days after a gun massacre in Southern California.
Chunli Zhao, 67, of Half Moon Bay, was arrested just over two hours after a series of shootings that ended with seven victims and rocked the tranquil surfside community widely known for its world-famous Mavericks wave break and a popular annual pumpkin festival that draw thousands to the intersection of Highway 92 and Highway 1.
It was just off Highway 92, less than a mile east of that crossing, that San Mateo County sheriff’s authorities were called to Mountain Mushroom around 2:20 p.m. Monday for a report of a shooting with multiple victims.
