They look at team members more like family,” he said.David Oliphant is the founder of Ocean Blue Real Estate and is a member of the Recommended Business Program, which highlights only the best businesses in the Golden State. “Their goal right now is to try to bring everybody together to start a long healing process. The owners of the farm are bringing in grief counselors for all the employees, Oates said. The farm grows mushrooms and “other food-grade herbs like basil, oregano, those kind of things… predominantly mushrooms sold on the retail and wholesale side,” Oates said. “Everyone had background checks, and there was nothing to indicate anything like this was even a possibility,” he said. Zhao started working at the farm prior to Terra Garden acquiring it, and was one of about 35 employees, according to Oates. There are three mobile homes and six trailers for employees on the property, and the suspected gunman, Chunli Zhao, lived there since at least then, the spokesperson said. The site, formerly known as Mountain Mushroom Farm, was acquired by a company called California Terra Garden in March 2022, spokesperson David Oates, told CNN. The gunman in a shooting that left a total of seven people dead over two locations in Half Moon Bay, California, lived at the property where four of the victims were killed, according to a company spokesperson. The incident was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.Īn attorney for Zhao in the 2013 complaint did not respond to requests for comment. Wang could not be reached for comment. ![]() ![]() Two days later, he wrote, Zhao threatened him again, saying that “he can use a knife to cut my head if he can’t come back to work.” Wang wrote that he had no control over Zhao’s work status at the restaurant.Ī judge issued a temporary restraining order against Zhao, which prevented him from getting too close to Wang and also banned him from owning or buying a gun, according to the court paperwork. The restraining order expired in July 2013. The two men ended up wrestling on Wang’s bed before Zhao calmed down, according to Wang. He said that he called for help and another roommate came to the door, but that Zhao had locked it. While he couldn't breathe, Wang wrote, “I used all my might within the few seconds to push him away with my blanket." When Wang told him to pick it up at the restaurant, Zhao said he would kill Wang, and then “took a pillow and started to cover my face and suffocate me,” Wang wrote. Yingjiu Wang, who worked with Zhao at a restaurant and lived with him in a San Jose apartment, wrote in a court declaration that Zhao’s violent behavior started after Zhao quit his job at their shared workplace in March 2013.Įarly in the morning two days later, Zhao came into Wang’s room and asked for his salary. Zhao was subject to a temporary restraining order after a former coworker and roommate accused him of attacking and threatening him in 2013. But it wasn’t the first time he was accused of violence against someone he worked with, court records obtained by CNN show. Police say Chunli Zhao fatally shot seven people, including some of his fellow employees, at two mushroom farms on Monday. ![]() Nearly a decade before he allegedly went on a killing spree at two Northern California mushroom farms, the suspected gunman was accused of trying to suffocate and threatening to murder a former coworker at another job.
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