Crime & Safety

2 Shot, 1 Dead In Vista

Two people were shot at a Vista home, one of them fatally, sheriff's deputies said.

VISTA, CA – Two people were shot at a Vista home early Saturday morning, one of them fatally, sheriff's deputies said.

A caller told dispatchers around 6:40 a.m. that two people had been shot inside a home on Hartwright Road north of Valinda Way and one of the victims wasn't breathing, according to Lt. Rich Williams of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

A woman was pronounced dead at the scene with a traumatic wound, Williams said. Paramedics took the other victim, a man, to a local hospital with a suspected gunshot wound. His injuries were severe, and his prognosis wasn't known.

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Homicide detectives were investigating the shooting, Williams said, and the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office was working to notify the woman's next of kin.

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