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The online data dashboard notes that the number of deaths will change as additional cases are reported.
Deaths are reported when a death certificate is processed listing COVID-19 as a cause or a significant condition, according to the county Public Health Department. The process can take several days and up to two months to finalize if pending verification by the county Coroner’s Bureau, a division of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department.
Of the county’s 303 COVID-19-related deaths, 124 residents lived in Santa Maria, 55 in Santa Barbara, 27 in Lompoc, 20 in Goleta, 19 in Orcutt, 17 in the regions of the North County unincorporated area, 14 in the Santa Ynez Valley, 11 in the Montecito-Summerland-Carpinteria area, 10 in the unincorporated area of the Goleta Valley and Gaviota, four in the Lompoc federal prison complex, and one in Isla Vista. One death is pending the geographic area.
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2nd Victim of Double Shooting Near Goleta Dies of His Injuries
Jasper Pieter van der Meulen, 19, of Isla Vista had been hospitalized since being critically wounded in the Jan. 7 attack
Jasper Pieter van der Meulen, 19, of Isla Vista, the second of two victims of a double shooting earlier this month near Goleta, has died of his injuries, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department announced on Friday. (Contributed photo) By Tom Bolton, Noozhawk Executive Editor | @tombol | UPDATED 9:41 p.m.
January 29, 2021
| 6:39 p.m.
The second of two victims of a double shooting earlier this month near Goleta has died of his injuries, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff s Department announced on Friday.