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Updated: April 11, 2026 @ 11:22 am
A farm where several people were found shot dead in Half Moon Bay.
A U.S. Department of Labor investigation recovered more than $450,000 in back wages and damages for 62 workers at two mushroom farms off the Half Moon Bay coast where deadly shootings took the lives of seven farmworkers over a year prior.
After the shooting, the city and county realized that squalid and untenable living conditions many coastal farmworkers and their families were living in had gone unknown and unregulated.
An investigation into California Terra Gardens and Concord Farms Inc., where the shootings occurred on Jan. 23, 2023, was opened after the deadly tragedy, a press release from the U.S. Department of Labor said.
“Our investigators found workers at California Terra Gardens and Concord Farms housed in sickening conditions, forced to sleep near garbage and with insects all around,” Alberto Raymond, Wage and Hour Division assistant district director, said in the press release.
Thirty-nine workers at California Terra Gardens were living in “cramped cargo containers, garages and dilapidated trailers,” sleeping on dirty mattresses near insects and trash, the press release said. Two miles away, at Concord Farms, workers were housed in “moldy, makeshift rooms” in a greenhouse infested with insects.
The investigation found that workers were shortchanged and underpaid at both farms.
Concord Farms will pay $370,107 in overtime wages and liquidated damages to 10 workers, $4,242 in late wages to 23 workers and $29,049 in civil money penalties to address living violations. California Terra Gardens will pay $84,074 for illegally deducting housing payments for workers and $42,494 to resolve other legal violations.
The alleged shooter, Chunli Zhao — a disgruntled employee of California Terra Gardens who previously worked at Concord Farms — has been in custody since January 2023 and awaits criminal trial.
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The location of the farms needs to be correctly described as "near" Half Moon Bay, not "in" Half Moon Bay so that readers' attention is appropriately directed to the proper authority, County government, for direct remedial action.
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