HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (KRON) -- The city of Half Moon Bay held a remembrance ceremony to honor the lives of seven farm workers killed in a mass shooting last year.
“We also recognize and remember that farm workers have been victims of crimes.”
A few hundred people packed the Boys & Girls Club in Half Moon Bay, honoring and remembering the lives of seven farm workers who were shot to death last year.
Now the community wants to remember and make a better place for farm workers.
“Addressing the lack of decent housing for farm workers in the community, not be threatening to other people in the community, they are a part of this community,” Congresswoman Anna Eshoo said.
The families of the victims were there. Eshoo, along with other politicians, pledged more support and dollars for housing. Another issue Eshoo says more needs to be done at a federal level on gun violence.
“There will be a congress that puts gun violence at the top of their agenda, addresses it for the safety of every single community in our country," Eshoo said.
The remembrance ended with a candlelight vigil and hopes that such a tragedy could make the community a stronger safer place.
President Joe Biden posted on social media Sunday, honoring the seven victims in the Half Moon Bay mass shooting. “Jill and I pray for the families of the victims,” Biden wrote on X.
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