California records seven deaths in two shootings in California

Seven people were killed and one seriously injured in two shootings in Half Moon Bayin the north of the state of California, US media reported on Monday.

There is currently no official confirmation of the death toll, although the San Mateo County sheriff said on Twitter that he was dealing with the incident.

Officers responded to “a mass shooting incident in the area of ​​(Highway) 92 and the city limits (of Half Moon Bay),” it said.

“The suspect is in custody. There is no ongoing threat to the community at this time,” she added shortly after.

The two incidents occurred on farms close to each other. in an area south of San Francisco.

ABC7, citing law enforcement sources, initially reported one person dead and three injured at the Mountain Mushroom Farm. Three people died at the nearby Rice Tucking-Soil farm, it said on its website.

The network later updated its balance sheet, as well as NBC Bay Area, citing its own sources, which also reported seven deaths in the two shootings.

These incidents occur less than 48 hours after a gunman will kill 11 people in a dance studio near Los Angeles.

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who has been in Monterey Park, where that massacre took place, spoke on Twitter moments after the news of the new massacre was released.

“At the hospital meeting with the victims of a mass shooting as they take me out to inform me of another shooting. This time in Half Moon Bay. Tragedy after tragedy.”

ABC7 aired footage of a man being detained, saying this happened as his equipment was setting up outside a police station.