The shooting that left four dead at a Half Moon Bay mushroom farm was at least the second time an employee tried to kill a coworker on the property, records show.
Eric Hove, one of Zhao’s attorneys, did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.
The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office has declined to release information from an interview Zhao gave to investigators after he was arrested. Li, a longtime mushroom farmer, said living conditions were not too comfortable but that working conditions were pretty good. He said, though, that Zhao would tattle on people he didn’t like, to Li.
The charges against Zhao include additional allegations that could result in the death penalty or life in prison without parole, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a moratorium on executions. Among those allegations are that Zhao used a gun, caused great bodily injury and killed multiple people. Few details about the victims are known, but officials have said some were migrant workers. Chinese workers make up a small percentage of the farmworker population in the coastal region.
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