8/30 • California • San Francisco
Sunnyvale, state sue owner of Airbnb party death home
By: TRD Staff | Published on Aug 30, 2022
Sunnyvale and the state have sued the owner of an Airbnb rental where two people were shot, leaving one dead, during a party last August.
The lawsuit alleges that Ke Zhou, of Maryland, bought the home to rent, breaking a Sunnyvale law against short-term rentals where the host is not present on the property, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
“It is extremely unlikely a massive, advertised house party would have occurred at the subject property had the ‘host’ actually been there,” the suit claims, with Zhou showing “a complete and repeated disregard for the city’s laws.”