SB Sheriff: Goleta double homicide was drug deal gone wrong
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - After law enforcement were seen in two Santa Barbara neighborhoods Thursday morning, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff s Office announced that arrests have finally been made in the Jan. 7 double homicide near Goleta, now deemed a drug deal gone wrong.
During a press conference, Sheriff Bill Brown said that four people were arrested as a result of their investigation.
Two of those arrests were made in connection to the murders and two were made as a result of search warrants.
Sheriff Brown said that bystanders initially reported the shooting near the 600 block of Burtis Street. There, deputies found two men each suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. One man was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was taken to the hospital and sadly died weeks later on Jan. 28.