A cluster of cell properties is seen on the California Terra Garden, previously Mountain Mushroom Farm, in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The web site is certainly one of two farms the place a shooter killed seven folks. Prosecutors have charged a 66-year-old man within the case. He pleaded not responsible to the fees on Thursday.

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A cluster of cell properties is seen on the California Terra Garden, previously Mountain Mushroom Farm, in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The web site is certainly one of two farms the place a shooter killed seven folks. Prosecutors have charged a 66-year-old man within the case. He pleaded not responsible to the fees on Thursday.

Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle through AP

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A farmworker charged with killing seven folks final month in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms pleaded not responsible Thursday.

Chunli Zhao, 66, is charged with seven counts of homicide and one depend of tried homicide.

Prosecutors stated that on Jan. 23 he opened hearth on the Half Moon Bay mushroom farm the place he labored, killing 4 co-workers and wounding one other one. They stated he then drove to a mushroom farm he was fired from in 2015 and shot to loss of life three former co-workers.

Zhao admitted to the shootings throughout a jailhouse media interview days after the taking pictures. Zhao instructed KNTV-TV he was bullied and labored lengthy hours on the farms and that his complaints had been ignored.

Dressed in a purple jail uniform on Thursday, Zhao appeared behind a glass partition within the courtroom along with his head bowed and spoke solely when a Mandarin translator relayed questions from the choose, the Mercury News reported. At a listening to final week, Zhao sobbed so loudly that the choose known as for a short recess.

The choose final week issued a gag order prohibiting prosecuting and protection attorneys, in addition to Zhao and the county sheriff’s workplace, from speaking to reporters concerning the info of the case or sharing opinions about what occurred. They can nonetheless talk about rulings that had been made in open courtroom and the procedural standing of upcoming hearings.

Earlier, the choose granted a request from protection attorneys to limit distant entry to courtroom data.