Pair Are Found Shot to Death in Mobile Home : Crime: Bodies of woman and man are discovered after reports of gunfire. Huntington Beach police, who found drug paraphernalia inside, have no suspects, motives.

An unidentified man and woman were shot to death in a mobile home early Tuesday morning, the first homicides of 1993 in a city that has logged as many as eight annually in the past few years.

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Police, who responded shortly after midnight to reports of shots fired at the Driftwood Beach Club mobile-home park, found the bodies in the hallway near the entrance of mobile home No. 441, said Huntington Beach Lt. Charles Poe.

Police said they have neither suspects nor motives in the slayings at the park on 21462 Pacific Coast Highway.

There was no evidence of a break-in at the home and no weapons were found, Poe said. Detectives found what they said were drug paraphernalia in the home, Poe said, but “we don’t know if drugs were the cause.”

Police have identified the victims, based upon their fingerprints, Poe said, but were withholding the names of the 32-year-old woman and 20-year-old man pending notification of relatives. It was not immediately known whether the two were related.

“We don’t know if (the victims) lived there, or were visiting; if they owned (the mobile home) or how they got there,” Poe said. “We have some known last addresses, and the detectives are out knocking on doors to see who lived there.”

With the investigation continuing, police would not release additional information about the slayings Tuesday, Poe said.

Several residents who lived near mobile home No. 441 told police they heard a series of gunshots from the mobile home around midnight. A few neighbors reported seeing a small white pickup truck speeding away from the scene, Poe said.

A short time later, Costa Mesa Police stopped a truck at Harbor Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue matching that description and detained the two people in it for questioning because they presented “conflicting statements,” Poe said.

The two were released later and “are no longer suspects at this time,” Poe added.

A woman who lives in a nearby mobile home said the gunshots roused her from bed. She said she heard more gunfire, a door slamming and someone running from the direction of the mobile home.

Looking out her window, she said, she saw a figure running in the shadows and getting into a pickup truck, which sped away.

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“I’m sorry that (the slayings) happened, but I’m not surprised, because there was always something going on around there,” the woman said. “There’s been a lot of cars driving by that place, a lot of yelling back and forth.”

She and other neighbors said they do not know who lived at the mobile home.

Roy Pearce, manager of the mobile-home park, said two young women had been living in the mobile home for about six months, “watching after the place for the owners.” Pearce said he did not know the women’s names and declined to identify the owners of the mobile home.

“I’ve never heard of anything out of the ordinary” concerning the people who lived there, Pearce said. “I’ve never had any problems with them.”

Pearce and the park’s residents said Tuesday’s killings were the first serious crimes they could remember at the mobile-home park. Some residents, most of whom are retirees, have been disgruntled lately, Pearce said, because the park is in the process of being relocated to another part of the city to allow for the construction of a hotel on the site.

The relocation process has caused some mobile-home owners to move away and rent their units to a younger set, which on occasion has thrown loud parties, residents said.

“And that was the extent of the problems around here,” said Ted Tennies, 88, a resident of the park since 1970. “Nothing like this has ever happened before.”

Police are looking for a white Chevrolet open-bed mini-pickup, possibly an S10 model, with the word “CHEVY” printed in black lettering on its tailgate. The rear window may have been tinted, Poe said.

“That’s unique because Chevrolet (autos) say Chevrolet and not Chevy,” Poe said. Anyone with information on the truck or the shooting is asked to call the Huntington Beach Police Department at (714) 375-5066.