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By Bay City News.
The owner of farms in Half Moon Bay, where seven farmworkers were killed last year, is being sued by the family of one of the slain workers and his brother, who survived the mass shooting.
Pedro F ix Romero P ez was shot five times but survived the shooting on January 23, 2023. His older brother Jos died
Attorneys for the family announced Thursday that they have filed lawsuits against Xianmin Guan of California-based Terra Garden, Inc., alleging that the farm “failed to take reasonable steps to protect its tenants from violent acts by third parties.”
The lawsuits also allege that the shooter, Chunli Zhao, had a documented history of violence and that there was another shooting at the property in July 2022.
Authorities said Zhao, who worked on farms, killed four workers and injured a fifth at California's Terra Garden and killed three more workers at a farm a few miles away.
California Terra Garden has no