Sisters had just finished a shift when police say Chunli Zhao started shooting
HALF MOON BAY — Erlin Ortiz and her sister Miriam had just finished their shift packing mushrooms at the California Terra Gardens farm and were sitting in their car ready to run an errand when the horror unfolded before them.
Investigators have described Zhao as a disgruntled worker but have said nothing yet about what set him off. As the man was picking up a pallet of mushrooms, Erlin said, Zhao fired. The man collapsed to the ground. The structure where mass shooting suspect Chunli Zhao, 66, allegedly lived with his wife, is seen from this drone view at Mountain Mushroom Farms in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Zhao was booked on seven counts of murder after the Jan. 23 shooting.
Erlin worked next to Lu in the packing shed. “We were always good friends despite her being old,” Erlin, 33, said. “She was learning Spanish. I didn’t learn much Chinese. She always teased me about having a boyfriend.” “I thought he had worked too hard and therefore was lying on the ground,” she said in Mandarin. “But then I saw the blood. There was so much blood.”Video screen capture of Chunli Zhao , 67, the suspect in the killing of Seven people, being taken into custody in Half Moon Bay on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. Two of the victims, a man and a woman, were Chinese, they said. One was Hispanic, a man who was later identified by his close friend as Marciano Martinez, 50.
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