LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com)
— A 15 to 16-foot great white shark killed a surfer Tuesday near Surf
Beach in Lompoc.
Ralph Collier from the Shark
Research Committee made the determination Wednesday after examining the body of
Francisco Javier Solorio Jr., who was bitten by the shark on the left side of
his upper torso area.
Shortly before 11 a.m.
Tuesday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s dispatch center received a 911 call
stating a man had been bitten by a shark while surfing off the coast.
Solorio’s friend, who
witnessed the attack, pulled him out of the ocean and onto the beach.
The man then started first aid
procedures while another surfer called 911.
The Vandenberg Air Force Base
Fire Department arrived and took over emergency procedures.
Solorio was pronounced dead at
the scene.
Lucas McKaine Ransom, a
19-year-old former Perris High School and University of California, Santa
Barbara student, was
killed in 2010 near the same location in a suspected great white shark
attack.
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