Half Moon Bay Farm sued over mass shooting in 2023
A migrant worker who was shot five times in a mass shooting that also left his brother dead is now filing a lawsuit against the farm and one of its owners, claiming they failed to protect him and his deceased colleagues from fellow farmer Chunli Zhao, who gunned down seven others.
HALF MOON BAY, California. – Employees of a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, where a deadly mass murder took place over a year ago, were threatened with execution by a former colleague.
On July 24, Edin Moises Guerraortiz, 24, arrived at the Mountain Mushroom Farm at 12761 San Mateo Road as four employees were taking their lunch break, according to court records from the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
With his 4-year-old son in tow, Guerraortiz allegedly ordered the workers to kneel “so he could execute them all.” He appeared angry and gestured as if he were hiding a weapon, authorities said.
Guerraortiz, a former employee of the farm, had been fired days before the incident.
The workers were in great fear because it was the same construction site where disgruntled employee Chunli Zhao committed a deadly mass murder in January 2023.
Guerraortiz is also accused of damaging the cars of two of his former colleagues.
He was arrested at his mother’s house.
Guerraortiz confessed that he wanted to scare the victims because, according to him, they had teased him about his wife’s affair with another employee.
