The nephew of Half Moon Bay shooting victim, Marciano Martinez-Jiminez described his uncle as being kind and said he was killed while trying to stop the gunman from hurting others.
On Wednesday evening, the nephew of Marciano "Martin" Martinez-Jimenez said the family is holding a"He was very kind. He was a father figure. He was super supportive in whatever I did. He introduced me to a lot of stuff that I like to this day," said Carlos Martinez.
Officials said he was upset with something about work when he fired his handgun at his co-workers at two mushroom farms on Monday afternoon, killing seven of them and injuring an eighth." His uncle's co-worker told his family that Zhao walked into the workplace with a gun and that Martinez-Jimenez was the first to see the suspect and tried to stop him.
"It's the cultures coming together, living together. This is not about dividing communities. It's about coming together," said Half Moon Bay Vice Mayor Joaquin Jimenez who is also a farmworker program director for the nonprofit, ALAS. "Every time we brought something to the farm. It's for everybody," he said.
"It's mostly sadness for me," Carlos Martinez said. "I'm not angry. I'm just sad that my uncle was caught in between whatever was going on with that guy and anyone else. My uncle was just trying to do his job and protect people there."
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