Crime & Safety

Huntington Man Victim in Calif. Homicide

Richard Lewin was one of three shooting victims

A Huntington man was one of three murder victims discovered in a rural California farmhouse Tuesday, according to the Press Democrat.

Richard Lewin, 46, a 1984 graduate of Walt Whitman High School, was reportedly shot and killed alongside two other men by an unknown assailant.

Sonoma County Police told the paper that Lewin and a Colorado man also gunned down during the shooting, were in Sonoma County to buy a "large quantity" of marijuana. They added that the shooting looks like the result of a drug deal gone wrong.

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An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday.

 

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