CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / SAN DIEGO

By Richard Marosi

March 31, 2009 12 AM PT

A U.S. man found dead on a Tijuana street last week has been identified as 19-year-old Shane Pennington, according to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana.

The Baja California attorney general’s office, which has not confirmed Pennington’s identity, said the body had suffered stab wounds and was left on a street near a beach-side bullring.

Mexican authorities have not determined a motive and did not know why Pennington was in Mexico.

Pennington worked at a restaurant in Orange County and was born in North Carolina.

-- Richard Marosi

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Richard Marosi

Richard Marosi is a former Metro editor for the Los Angeles Times. He previously reported from the U.S.-Mexico border. Marosi was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015 for his series on Mexican laborers and in 2013 for his stories on the fate of thousands of immigrants who were deported from the U.S. to Mexico in recent years. He has delved deeply into Mexico’s drug wars, producing a groundbreaking series on the Sinaloa cartel and sharing an Overseas Press Club Award in 2009. In the early 2000s, his corruption investigations in Southeast Los Angeles County contributed to the indictment or ouster of a dozen politicians and city officials. Marosi is a Southern California resident but remains loyal to the Giants, 49ers and Warriors of his native San Francisco Bay Area.

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