Half Moon Bay shooting suspect charged with 7 counts of murder

The San Mateo County District Attorney’s office has charged a suspect in the fatal shooting at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, California with seven counts of murder. Chunli Zhao first appeared in court on Wednesday, where he held up a piece of paper to hide his face from the cameras.

The 66-year-old man, who had two court-appointed lawyers and an interpreter, did not apply. Zhao is being held without bail and is scheduled for trial on Feb. 16.

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told reporters outside the courtroom that Zhao spoke with detectives after his arrest, adding that they “really have a hunch about motives at this point based on what he told us.”

Wagstaffe also said police found a note in Zhao’s car and that a Ruger was used during the shooting.

San Mateo County Sheriff Cristina Corpus said Zhao acted alone Monday when she said he entered a mountain mushroom farm, shot four people and wounded a fifth.

Police then found three more deceased victims at nearby Concord Farms.

According to the Corps, Zhao was taken into custody without incident after he was found in his car in the parking lot near the police station and a semi-automatic pistol was found in his car. Investigators assume the suspect was there to turn himself in, but they haven’t confirmed that yet, Hull said.

On Wednesday, the San Mateo County coroner’s office identified six of the seven victims of the shooting: Zhisheng Liu, 73, Qizhong Cheng, 66, Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, Yetao Bing, 43, Aixiang Zhang, 74, and Jingzhi Lum, 64 years old.

According to the coroner, the seventh victim has been “tentatively identified” but her name will not be released until “positive identification” and notification of next of kin.

Officials said some of those killed were migrant workers.

Servando Martinez Jimenez told CBS San Francisco that his brother, Marciano Martinez Jimenez, worked as a delivery man and manager on one of the farms. He said that his brother never mentioned Zhao or anything about problems with other workers.

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“He was a good person. He was polite and friendly with everyone. He never had any problems with anyone. I don’t understand why all this happened,” Servando Martinez Jimenez said about his brother in Spanish.

Marciano Martinez Jimenez has lived in the US for 28 years after arriving from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, his brother said, adding that he is working with the Mexican consulate to bring his brother’s body home.

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