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Body of man shot to death discovered in car on Central Coast

Man's body discovered in car on outskirts of Santa Maria Saturday.
Santa Maria Police Department
Man's body discovered in car on outskirts of Santa Maria Saturday.

Car was in agricultural area on outskirts of Santa Maria.

Detectives are trying to figure out what led to the weekend shooting death of a man on the Central Coast.

The body of a 61-year-old man was discovered in a car on Main Street on the outskirts of Santa Maria Saturday morning.

The car was parked on the shoulder of the street neat Hanson Way. It’s an agricultural area, but there is a mobile home park nearby.

Investigators say some people apparently heard gunshots early that morning, but no one called police. The man was from Santa Maria, but his name hasn’t been released pending notification of family members.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.