California farm shooter admits guilt, says mentally ill

LOS ANGELES: The man accused of killing seven fellow farmworkers in California told a US reporter Thursday that he was guilty and said he believes he is suffering from mental illness.Zhao Chunli said he had endured years of bullying and overwork, but his complaints were never addressed, NBC Bay Area's Janelle Wang reported.Wang visited the suspect in jail and was able to speak to him for around 15 minutes in Mandarin.She told viewers she had identified herself as a journalist and told Zhao he was free to choose to speak to her or not.“He described to me that he believes that he suffers from some sort of mental illness,“ she said.“He’s struggled with that for a while and he says on Monday he was not in his right mind.”RegretZhao, 66, was arrested hours after seven people were shot dead on the farms where they worked in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.Five have been identified as Chinese citizens, and the two others as Mexican. A Mexican man who survived the attack was being treate