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Man shot to death in Central Coast park identified

Yellow police tape stretches across a crime scene. Wording on the tape reads 'Police. Do Not Cross.'
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Detectives trying to determine motive and find a suspect in what they believe was a homicide in Guadalupe.

Authorities are now identifying a man found shot to death in a park on the Central Coast.

The body of Paul Anthony Delgado was found Monday afternoon near the gazebo of the Veterans Memorial in Guadalupe. The 55-year-old man was homeless.

Guadalupe Police asked the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department to handle the investigation. Detectives say the case appears to be a homicide, but at this point there is no indication of a motive, or who might have been responsible for the shooting death.

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.