The San Mateo County Coroner’s office today named six of the seven victims who were shot dead at two mushroom farms near Half Moon Bay.
They are:
• Zhishen Liu, 73, of San Francisco;
• Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, of Moss Beach;
• Aixiang Zhang, 74, of San Francisco;
• Qizhong Cheng, 66, of Half Moon Bay;
• Jingzhi Lu, 64, of Half Moon Bay;
• Yetao Bing, 43, whose hometown was unknown.
The charging documents identify Jose Romero Perez as the other person killed and Pedro Romero Perez as the eighth victim, who survived the shooting.
Officials have said some of the people killed were migrant workers. Some people were shot in trailers on the property, Wagstaffe said.
Servando Martinez Jimenez said his brother Marciano Martinez Jimenez, one of the victims, was a delivery person and manager at one of the farms. He never mentioned Zhao or said anything about problems with other workers.
“He was a good person. He was polite and friendly with everyone. He never had any problems with anyone. I don’t understand why all this happened,” Martinez Jimenez said in Spanish.
Marciano Martinez Jimenez had lived in the United States for 28 years after arriving from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Servando Martinez Jimenez said he is working with the Mexican consulate to get his brother’s body home.
Meanwhile in San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, the suspect in the shootings, Chunli Zhao, 66, appeared in court for an arraignment, but the arraignment was put off until Feb. 16. He remains in the county jail without bond.