Crime & Safety
Update: One Dead, One Wounded in Oceanside Shooting
The first person to arrive at the scene found blood seeping from beneath a doorway.
Update:
A woman was killed and her live-in boyfriend gravely wounded this afternoon in a shooting at their North County condominium in what appeared to be a murder-suicide attempt committed by the man, authorities said.
A person who knows the couple heard the gunfire in the 4200 block of Vista del Rio Way in northern Oceanside shortly after 2 p.m. and went into their residence to investigate, seeing blood seeping out from underneath an interior doorway, according to police. The witness then left and made a 911 call, Lt. Leonard Cosby said.
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Patrol officers went into the condominium and found the residents, believed to be in their 20s, on the floor of their master bedroom with gunshot wounds to their heads. A pistol lay nearby.
Medics pronounced the woman dead at the scene and took her boyfriend to a hospital, where he was placed on life support. Their names were withheld pending family notification.
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Preliminary evidence suggested that the man gunned down the woman and then shot himself, though detectives were not absolutely ruling out the possibility that an unidentified third person could have been responsible, Cosby said.
There was no immediate indication of a motive for the crime, according to Cosby.
Earlier:
A woman was killed and a man gravely wounded this afternoon in a suspected murder-suicide attempt at a North County condominium complex.
The gunfire in the 4200 block Vista del Rio Way in northern Oceanside was reported shortly after 2 p.m., according to police.
Officers found a woman who appeared to be in her 20s mortally wounded in the residence, Lt. Leonard Cosby said. Medics took a man of similar age to a hospital, where he was placed on life support.
Police recovered a gun in the condo.
Preliminary evidence suggested that the shooting was an attempted murder- suicide, though detectives were not ruling out the possibility that a third person was the assailant, the lieutenant said.
--City News Service
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