Chunli Zhao, 66, is charged with seven counts of homicide and one rely of tried homicide.
Prosecutors stated that on Jan. 23 he opened hearth on the Half Moon Bay mushroom farm the place he labored, killing 4 co-workers and wounding one other one. They stated he then drove to a mushroom farm he was fired from in 2015 and shot to demise three former co-workers.
Zhao admitted to the shootings throughout a jailhouse media interview days after the taking pictures. Zhao instructed KNTV-TV he was bullied and labored lengthy hours on the farms and that his complaints have been ignored.
Wearing a crimson jail uniform on Thursday, Zhao appeared behind a glass partition within the courtroom together with his head bowed and spoke solely when a Mandarin translator relayed questions from the decide, the Mercury Information reported. At a listening to final week, Zhao sobbed so loudly that the decide referred to as for a short recess.
The decide final week issued a gag order prohibiting prosecuting and protection attorneys, in addition to Zhao and the county sheriff’s workplace, from speaking to reporters in regards to the info of the case or sharing opinions about what occurred. They will nonetheless talk about rulings that have been made in open courtroom and the procedural standing of upcoming hearings.
Earlier, the decide granted a request from protection attorneys to limit distant entry to courtroom data.