‘Oh my God, he killed him!’ Farmworkers share firsthand account of start of Half Moon Bay rampage

‘Oh my God, he killed him!’ Farmworkers share firsthand account of start of Half Moon Bay rampage

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HALF MOON BAY — Erlin Ortiz and her sister Miriam had just finished their shift packing mushrooms at the California Terra Gardens farm and were sitting in their car ready to run an errand when the horror unfolded before them.

Right next to the greenhouses, co-worker Chunli Zhao — his back to them — pulled a gun from his red knapsack and pointed it at a fellow Chinese farmworker, shouting in his native Mandarin something they didn’t understand. Desperately, step by step, the farmworker backed up, Ortiz said, covering his face with his arms.