Coronado slaying victims include 2 Navy pilots
Reporting from San Diego -- Homicide investigators Tuesday continued to piece together evidence from interviews and forensic tests in an attempt to determine what led to the shooting deaths of four people in Coronado on New Year’s Day.
The victims were two Navy pilots, the sister of one of the pilots, and an unidentified man from Chula Vista.
The bodies were found early Sunday in an apartment not far from the famed Hotel del Coronado. One body — of one of the men — was found in the doorway, and the three others were discovered inside the apartment, authorities said.
No official announcement has been made about identities, but family members and others have identified three of the dead as Navy pilots David Reis, 25, and Bob Reeves, 25, and Reis’ sister, Karen, 24.
Reis and Reeves were assigned to an F/A-18 Hornet squadron at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego, authorities said. Karen Reis, a graduate of UC San Diego, was working at a local grocery store and as a volleyball coach.
Lt. Larry Nesbit of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said there are no suspects considered at large but declined to label the killings as murder-suicide. The department appealed for help from the public, apparently to determine the relationship between the Chula Vista man and the other three.
The shootings occurred about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Neighbors called the Coronado Police Department, which responded within four minutes. The Sheriff’s Department SWAT squad was also called.
After authorities found the body in the doorway, a robotic device was used to search the apartment, where the other three were found, Nesbit said.
The case is also being investigated by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
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