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Central Coast Man Shot To Death; Wife Arrested On Murder Charge

A Central Coast man is dead, and his wife is accused of fatally shooting him.

San Luis Obispo Police were called to a home on the 600 block of Chorro Street Thursday night by reports of a gunshot, and a woman screaming.  They found Alexander Haigst with a gunshot wound.  The 35 year old San Luis Obispo man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives took over the investigation, and it led to the arrest of Haigst's wife.  Skylar Marie Marshall of San Luis Obispo  was arrested on a murder charge.  The 23-year-old woman is being held at the San Luis Obispo County Jail without the possibility of bail.

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.