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Community steps up support for families impacted by shooting in Half Moon Bay
Help pouring in for Half Moon Bay group affected by mass capturing
The group in Half Moon Bay is stepping up in a significant approach, offering as a lot help as they will to the households impacted by Monday’s mass capturing.
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. – The group in Half Moon Bay is stepping up in a significant approach, offering as a lot help as they will to the households impacted by Monday’s mass capturing.
Mac Dutra plaza is kind of a gathering place for among the farm employees. They go there simply to loosen up however on Tuesday, it turned a spot the place the group might mourn the seven individuals who misplaced their lives.
Residents in Half Moon Bay say it’s a quaint and quiet farming group and what occurred right here on Monday has left all of them in whole disbelief.
“We don’t bug anyone. We simply come collectively. We’re a really tight group. We like one another. It doesn’t occur right here,” mentioned Roberta Gelt, who has lived in Half Moon Bay for 40 years.
“Who’s going to consider farm employees being the victims of a mass capturing? We don’t know the motives behind it, however the entire metropolis of Half Moon Bay, we’re damage. We’re grieving the lack of our relations,” mentioned Joaquin Jimenez, Half Moon Bay’s vice mayor.
Investigators say the lethal capturing that left seven folks useless is a case of office violence. It was additionally one in every of three mass shootings in California in a three-day span. Now folks say they need to give attention to doing every thing they will to help the households who’ve been impacted.
“Persons are simply…whether or not its cash, or their time or each, everyone seems to be leaping in and actually making this a robust group,” mentioned RJ Jennings, with Coast facet Households Taking Motion.
“We’re one household of lots of of households on this group which might be outraged and need to dig deeper to know the grief that’s taking place in our farm employee group,” mentioned Stacy McCarthy, from Coast facet Households Taking Motion.
McCarthy says all of them hope to determine what’s behind the tragic capturing however within the meantime, serving to the households is their precedence.
“This can be a soup, there’s a protein drink. There are snacks,” McCarthy mentioned because the group packed donation baggage at San Benito’s on Essential Road.
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The farm employees and households who labored and lived the place the capturing occurred, have been taken to lodges whereas the investigation continues. Joaquin Jimenez is Half Moon Bay’s Vice Mayor and farm employee Program Director for advocacy group ALAS.
“We by no means noticed or seen any stress between anyone. We by no means heard about anyone being offended with any individual else. We by no means noticed a motive for any individual to do that,” Jimenez mentioned.
For anybody who needs to donate cash, meals, or clothes, you may contact ALAS in Half Moon Bay. The San Jose Ladies’s Membership will even gather donations Wednesday, January 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.