Crime & Safety
Vacaville High Student Found Shot Dead In Truck
Gunfire was reported today at 1:30 a.m. in the Canyon Creek Apartments on Aegean Way.
Vacaville police are investigating the fatal shooting of a high school student early this morning.
Demetrious Ward, 18, a Vacaville High School student, was found shot once in the driver’s seat of a Ford F-150 truck after police received a report about gunfire around 1:30 a.m., police Lt. Matt Lydon said.
The truck was in the parking lot of the Canyon Creek Apartments at 159 Aegean Way, Lydon said.
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Ward was taken to a hospital for surgery and died at 4:30 a.m., Lydon said.
Police are questioning potential witnesses and have taken the single-cab truck into evidence, Lydon said. Ward did not live in the apartment complex, Lydon said.
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An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
--Bay City News
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