The Half Moon Bay farmworkers who survived the mass shooting, and who had friends and family who died, have not spoken publicly until now.
But the deaths of the five men and two women who toiled on two mushroom farms was most devastating to the loved ones whose family and friends were killed on Jan. 23 by 66-year-old Chunli Zhao, a disgruntled co-worker.
This man's interview, along with two others, were all conducted in Spanish and done anonymously to protect the farmworkers' identities. The names of those killed are: Jose Romero Perez, 38; Zhishen Liu, 73, of San Francisco; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, of Moss Beach, California; Aixiang Zhang, 74, of San Francisco; Qizhong Cheng, 66, of Half Moon Bay; Jingzhi Lu, 64, of Half Moon Bay; and Yetao Bing, 43, whose hometown was unknown. Pedro Romero Perez is the eighth victim, the only one who survived the shooting.A Mexican farmworker said that he and his colleagues made friends an elderly Chinese couple.
ALAS Executive Director Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga said since the shooting, her group has been meeting with families and workers in private as people are 'distraught" and struggling with "emotional trauma."
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