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Children Were Present at Half Moon Bay Mass Shooting, Witnessed Massacre: ‘Unspeakable’

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James Bradley

Published Jan 19, 2026

Specialists say a few youngsters were available at the mass shooting episode in Half Moon Sound, Calif. that killed seven individuals on Monday. In a meeting with CNN, San Mateo Province Sheriff Christina Corpus said that the shooting appeared to be a “working environment viciousness” episode at a homestead, and that few youngsters saw the assault.

“It was a big rustic area, so individuals are working,” Corpus told CNN. “It’s fanned out, there’s kin that inhabit the area also. It was in the early evening when children were out of school.

For youngsters to observe this is unspeakable.” No youngsters were actually harmed in the assault. The shootings happened more than two separate areas in the little seaside town, only south of San Francisco. In one area off the Cabrillo Thruway, four individuals were found dead around 2:22 p.m. nearby time.

A fifth casualty likewise experienced perilous wounds and was hurried to Stanford Clinical Center. Afterward, three additional bodies were recuperated around a pretty far.

Children Were Present at Half Moon Bay Mass Shooting, Witnessed Massacre: ‘Unspeakable’

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It’s muddled whether youngsters were available at one or the two areas. Around two hours after the second arrangement of bodies were found, police captured Zhao Chunli an inhabitant of Half Moon Cove. The 66-year-old suspect was found by a delegate sitting in his vehicle in the parking area of a close by sheriff’s substation.

He was arrested without episode. A weapon was recuperated at the scene. Specialists accept that he acted alone, and was a Chinese farmworker like his supposed casualties.

Corpus told columnists Monday that Zhao, 66, utilized a legitimately gotten quick firing weapon to shoot and kill “people that he designated… What we know is this transformed into a working environment savagery episode, and he had an open door, we accept, to hurt others, however he designated people that he pursued and sought after.”

Prison records show Zhao has to deal with penalties of planned murder and first-degree endeavored murder, notwithstanding a guns upgrade. Zhao is set to be summoned on charges connected with the shooting at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. It’s hazy assuming he has held a lawyer approved to talk for his benefit. Bail has not yet been set and he has not entered a supplication.