Law enforcement personnel stand on the scene of a taking pictures on Monday in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Seven individuals have been killed in two associated shootings.

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Law enforcement personnel stand on the scene of a taking pictures on Monday in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Seven individuals have been killed in two associated shootings.

Jeff Chiu/AP

A person killed seven individuals at two landscaping nurseries in Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco, on Monday, legislation enforcement stated.

The shooter was believed to be a employee at both one or each places and the victims have been additionally believed to be employees, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus stated.

An eighth particular person was at Stanford Medical Center in essential situation, she stated.

The suspect was recognized as Chunli Zhao, a 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident, the sheriff’s workplace stated. He is in custody and cooperating.

The two places are a couple of mile away from one another, the sheriff stated. Law enforcement doesn’t have a motive for the taking pictures.

Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the first location round 2:22 p.m. native time and located 4 victims useless of gunshot wounds, with a fifth sufferer additionally wounded. Three extra victims have been discovered on the second location quickly thereafter.

Zhao was present in his automobile within the car parking zone of the Sheriff’s Office Half Moon Bay Police Substation at 4:40 p.m. A semiautomatic handgun was present in his automobile, authorities stated. Zhao acted alone and there’s no excellent menace to the general public, the sheriff’s workplace stated.

“This is a horrific event, one that we would never imagine would occur in San Mateo County,” stated San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President David Pine. “Gun violence in this country is at completely unacceptable levels and it’s really hit home tonight.”

The taking pictures comes lower than 48 hours after a gunman killed 11 and wounded 9 at a Chinese-owned ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, a majority Asian American suburb of Los Angeles. The suspect, a 72-year-old Asian man, died by suicide. Authorities wouldn’t have a motive for that taking pictures.