The US state of California is reeling from its third mass shooting in eight days after a man shot dead seven former co-workers south of San Francisco.
The attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. Some of the victims were Chinese-American.
Suspect Chunli Zhao, 66, was arrested after driving to a police station.
It comes as the state mourns the deaths of 11 people in Monterey Park – about six hours south-east of Half Moon Bay – during Lunar New Year celebrations.
And just over a week ago, six people including a teenage mother and baby were killed at a property in Goshen, central California.
In emotional remarks at a news conference in Half Moon Bay on Tuesday afternoon, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he’s grown weary of having to “say the same things we hear again and again” in the wake of mass shootings.
The latest bloodshed to hit the state took place at two locations around the Half Moon Bay community in what officials have described as instances of workplace violence.
Four victims were discovered at a mushroom farm, while the other three were later found at a nearby trucking business. An eighth victim who was transported to hospital is out of surgery and in a stable condition, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said at a news conference on Tuesday.
The victims were five adult men and two women, Sheriff Corpus said. All of them were agricultural workers, Half Moon Bay Mayor Deborah Penrose told CNN on Tuesday.
