Crime & Safety
Body Washes Onto SMC Beach: Police
The coroner's office was working to identify the person.
PACIFICA, CA — Pacifica police are investigating the death of a man whose body washed ashore onto a local beach over the weekend. The man has not yet been publicly identified.
According to police, authorities were called around 7:30 a.m. Sunday to the beach area below 800 Palmetto Avenue.
"Upon arrival of police and fire personnel, the body of a male was pulled from the surf and pronounced deceased," police said in a news release.
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The San Mateo County Coroner's Office has taken over the investigation. Anyone with information about the death is asked to call Pacifica police at (650) 738-7314, or the silent witness tip line at (650) 359-4444. Online crime tips can be submitted at http://www.cityofpacifica.org/...
— Patch file photo by Renee Schiavone / Bay City News Service contributed to this report
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