LOS ANGELES, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seven people were killed and one critically injured Monday in two shootings in Half Moon Bay in northern California, US media reported.
“The Sheriff’s Office is responding to a shooting incident with multiple victims in the area of (Highway) 92 and the (Half Moon Bay) City limits,” San Mateo County Sheriffit tweeted.
“Suspect is in custody. There is no ongoing threat to the community at this time.”
The two incidents reported by US media happened at farms close to each other in an area south of San Francisco.
A Half Moon Bay city councilwoman said the victims are Chinese farmworkers.
ABC7 originally reported one person was dead and three injured at the Mountain Mushroom Farm, citing law enforcement sources. Three people were killed at nearby Concord Farm, the broadcaster said on its website.
The broadcaster later updated that toll, and NBC Bay Area, citing its own sources, also said seven had died in the two shootings.
The new bloodshed came less than 48 hours after a gunman killed 11 people at a dance studio near Los Angeles.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has been in Monterey Park where that massacre took place, took to Twitter moments after news broke of the new killings.
“At the hospital meeting with victims of a mass shooting when I get pulled away to be briefed about another shooting. This time in Half Moon Bay. Tragedy upon tragedy.”
ABC7 aired footage of the arrest of an Asian man, saying it happened as their crew was setting up outside a police station.
White House press spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden had been briefed on the incident.
“He has asked federal law enforcement to provide any necessary assistance to the local authorities. As more details become available, the President will be updated.”
DES MOINES (IOWA): Two people died and a third was seriously wounded Monday in a shooting at a youth outreach center in Des Moines, Iowa, police said.
Police responded to a report of a shooting at Starts Right Here, which runs a program for at-risk youths, and found three people wounded, two of them critically.
“Those two people, both students, are dead now at the hospital. The third person, who is an employee of the school, is in serious condition,” said Paul Parizek, a spokesman for the Des Moines police department.
Acting on tips from witnesses, police later stopped a car and detained three possible suspects in the shooting as the investigation continues.
The shooting came after a massacre Saturday night in southern California in which 11 people were fatally shot at a dance hall by a 72-year-old Asian immigrant who later killed himself as police closed in. — NNN-AGENCIES
