The Half Moon Bay shooting was prompted by a $100 repair bill, local prosecutor says

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January 29, 20239:12 AM ET

FBI officials walk towards the crime scene at Mountain Mushroom Farm, on Jan. 24, 2023, after a gunman killed several people at two agricultural businesses in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
Aaron Kehoe/AP

SAN FRANCISCO — A farmworker charged with killing seven people at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms reportedly told investigators he was spurred to carry out the shootings after his supervisor demanded he pay $100 to repair a forklift damaged at work.

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe confirmed to the Bay Area News Group Friday that Chunli Zhao was enraged by the equipment bill, saying that a co-worker was to blame for the collision between his forklift and the co-worker's bulldozer.

KNTV-TV, the NBC affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area, was first to report the development.

Authorities say Zhao, 66, shot and killed four workers and wounded a fifth employee Monday at California Terra Garden. He then went to nearby Concord Farms, where he had worked previously, and fatally shot three former co-workers.

Zhao told KNTV-TV in a courthouse interview Thursday that he committed the shootings. He said he was bullied and worked long hours on the farms and his complaints were ignored, the station reported.

On Monday, Zhao vented to his supervisor about the bill, but the supervisor insisted he needed to pay. Zhao then allegedly shot the supervisor and the co-worker, the news outlets reported.

Speaking in Mandarin, Zhao told the television station from a county jail in Redwood City that he has been in the U.S. for 11 years and has a green card. He said he has a 40-year-old daughter in China and lived with his wife in Half Moon Bay.

The coroner's office has named six of the victims: Zhishen Liu, 73, of San Francisco; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, of Moss Beach, California; Aixiang Zhang, 74, of San Francisco; Qizhong Cheng, 66, of Half Moon Bay; Jingzhi Lu, 64, of Half Moon Bay; and Yetao Bing, 43, whose hometown was unknown.

The charging documents identified Jose Romero Perez as the other person killed and Pedro Romero Perez as the eighth victim, who survived.

 

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shytty employer tries to force an underpaid farm worker to reimburse the cost of repairing the equipment owned by the business.
bet they loss more than $100 dealing with this shooting. a whole host of problems in this country is based on income inequality and the wealth gap.

the straw that broke the camels back.

 

[VertigoKnight]

Bet the supervisor thought he was real clever. I wonder if his supervisor was asian?

'Losing face' is serious buiness in asian cultures.

You humiliate someone and expect them to smile and take it. If these guys were farm workers I'm guessing $100 is the difference between eating and paying bills

 

[The Radiant One]

Bet the supervisor thought he was real clever. I wonder if his supervisor was asian?

'Losing face' is serious buiness in asian cultures.

You humiliate someone and expect them to smile and take it. If these guys were farm workers I'm guessing $100 is the difference between eating and paying bills

In America you can't just be treating your workers any type of way. He probably had face humiliation several times before at that job

 

[Tryna Makit]

RIP to the victims.

May this coward get a death sentence

 

[Blown Moon]

He got the supervisor, that's cool. If the other workers he shot were the ones who “bullied” him I'm cool with that too.

I mean obviously, he has to go away but I can't make myself feel bad for people who fukk with other people. You should respect people just because of human decency and if you don't have that you shouldn't fukk with people because they could be a nutcase or on their last straw.

 

[audemarzz]

Y'all humanizing this asian murderer but calling for the death of black boys who look through cars in DC at night.
Definitely an "immigrant workers solidarity" site one minute, a 2nd gen conservative site the next.

 

[King Poetic]

A $100 .. really

The supervisor and him both should have squash that

 

[DonB90]

Man fukk all that give his old senile ass the chair bytch out here running around committing mass murder and people over here sympathizing with him over $100 with his super broke ass. Over there breaking ppl shyt then wanna go on a homicidal rampage this is the model hard working immigrants you people keep hollering about?

 

[ItsPeople]

people just looking at the moneytary value and not the principle

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

So he killed a bunch of ppl over 100 bucks and y'all dumbasses in here celebrating it.

 

[Blown Moon]

Y'all humanizing this asian murderer but calling for the death of black boys who look through cars in DC at night.
Definitely an "immigrant workers solidarity" site one minute, a 2nd gen conservative site the next.

I'll assume this was for me.

First, I don't know shyt about the DC situation. I judge things on a case-by-case basis.

 

[JackRoss]

DEPORT THEM ALL

 

[acri1]

He got the supervisor, that's cool. If the other workers he shot were the ones who “bullied” him I'm cool with that too.

I mean obviously, he has to go away but I can't make myself feel bad for people who fukk with other people. You should respect people just because of human decency and if you don't have that you shouldn't fukk with people because they could be a nutcase or on their last straw.

It's not okay to shoot somebody because they bullied you and I say that as someone that dealt with significant bullying in school

If he felt he was being treated unfairly he could've just quit or pursued legal action.

 

[Blown Moon]

It's not okay to shoot somebody because they bullied you and I say that as someone that dealt with significant bullying in school

If he felt he was being treated unfairly he could've just quit or pursued legal action.

I agree it's not okay, that's why I said he has to go away in my post. But bullies getting blown away isn't something that's going to make me sad.














It doesn't bother you either btw.