Seven people are killed in a new shooting in California as police investigate dance hall murders.

Two farms in the area of Half Moon Bay, a coastal community near San Francisco, were the scene of the most recent violence against Asian Americans in California.

Seven people were killed and one was injured in the twin shootings, according to San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus. Chunli Zhao, a 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident, was taken into custody.

Detectives in the southern part of the state were still looking into what motivated an elderly Asian immigrant to kill 11 people celebrating at a suburban dance hall before killing himself as police closed in on the scene.

In their assaults, both suspects appeared to have connections to at least some of their victims and used semiautomatic handguns.

Midway through the afternoon on Monday, Corpus reported that deputies had been sent to two nurseries in the area of Half Moon Bay, a rural area south of San Francisco.

One person was critically injured and four were dead at one of them.

She stated to reporters, “Shortly thereafter, three additional victims were also located dead with gunshot wounds at a separate shooting scene.”

She stated, “There are people who live there as well… it was in the afternoon when kids were out of school, and for children to witness it is unspeakable.”

According to Corpus, Zhou then drove to a Half Moon Bay sheriff’s substation, where ABC7 crews took dramatic video of his arrest as he was dragged to the ground by armed officers.

Corpus stated, “A semi-automatic handgun was located in his vehicle and Zhao was taken into custody without incident.”

Zhao had worked at one of the farms, according to reports, and the deceased were Chinese farmworkers.

Investigating the motive The news of the latest homicide came as Monterey Park detectives were trying to figure out why Huu Can Tran shot and killed revelers at a dance studio on Saturday night for Lunar New Year.

Monday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said that 42 rounds were fired in the attack by Tran, who had been arrested in 1994 for illegally possessing a firearm.

But there was still a lot of mystery, he said.

What possessed a madman to commit this act? We are unsure. However, we intend to find out,” he stated to the media.

Luna said that although officers had been informed that Tran might have known some of his victims, there was currently no evidence that he was related to any of them.

California, which already has some of the strictest firearm laws in the United States, was shocked to hear about the second mass shooting in less than 48 hours.

Another “tragedy,” said exasperated Governor Gavin Newsom, who had been in Monterey Park earlier on Monday, where he lashed out at the federal government’s lack of action on guns.

“I was meeting with victims of a mass shooting at the hospital when I was escorted away to be informed of another shooting. This time, it was in Half Moon Bay. He tweeted, “Tragedy upon tragedy.”

The most horrific mass shooting to occur in the United States since a teen gunman killed 21 people, all of whom were children, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in May.

Hostile On Monday, a picture of the perpetrator in Monterey Park began to emerge. This man was a regular at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio and, according to his marriage license, had immigrated from China.

CNN was told by Tran’s ex-wife that they had met there two decades ago when he offered to teach her informally.

The woman, who did not wish to be identified, claimed that they got married shortly thereafter, but that the relationship did not last, and the divorce was finalized in 2006.

She claimed that Tran, who occasionally drove trucks, was not violent but could be impatient.

CNN reported that a man who claimed to have known Tran previously stated that he would complain about dance teachers who, he claimed, would say “evil things about him.”

The man told the broadcaster that he was “hostile to a lot of people there.”

Luna said that a rifle, electronics, and ammunition were found by detectives who searched a mobile home in Hemet, 85 miles (140 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, where Tran had been living.

Tran had made “fraud, theft, and poisoning allegations involving his family in the Los Angeles area 10 to 20 years ago,” according to city police earlier this month.

“Her last dance” The 65-year-old victim’s family stated that the tragedy was “still sinking in.”

She claimed that Tran, who occasionally drove trucks, was not violent but could be impatient.

CNN reported that a man who claimed to have known Tran previously stated that he would complain about dance teachers who, he claimed, would say “evil things about him.”

The man told the broadcaster that he was “hostile to a lot of people there.”

Luna said that a rifle, electronics, and ammunition were found by detectives who searched a mobile home in Hemet, 85 miles (140 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, where Tran had been living.

Tran had made “fraud, theft, and poisoning allegations involving his family in the Los Angeles area 10 to 20 years ago,” according to city police earlier this month.

“Her last dance” The 65-year-old victim’s family stated that the tragedy was “still sinking in.”

A statement read, “She spent so many years going to the dance studio in Monterey Park on weekends.”

It was her favorite thing to do. However, Saturday was unjustly her last dance.

In the midst of the grief, a story of heroism has given hope. In what the police believe was a planned second attack, 26-year-old Brandon Tsay revealed how he fought with Tran as the elderly man arrived at another dance studio.

According to Tsay, who spoke with ABC, “he was hitting me across the face, bashing me in the back of my head, and I was trying to use my elbows to get the gun away from him.”