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Default Two Navy Pilots Among Dead In Coronado

From Associated Press:

Two Navy pilots were among four people found dead in a New Year's Day shooting at a tony condominium on San Diego Bay, a military spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.
Marine Corps spokeswoman 1st Lt. Maureen Dooley said the two Navy pilots were stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. She said the military was not releasing any details yet.
It was still not clear what prompted the shooting. Officials found a dead man in the doorway to the three-story condo in Coronado and the bodies of two men and a woman inside in different areas.
San Diego County sheriff's investigators have said there were no suspects but declined to say whether they believe it was a murder-suicide. The sheriff's homicide team did not immediately return calls.
The condo is located a few blocks from the famed Hotel del Coronado and a block from the main street lined with boutiques and restaurants. Homicides are rare in the affluent resort town - just one was recorded in 2010.
Tom Reis of Bakersfield said his two children were among the dead - his 24-year-old daughter Karen Reis, and his 25-year-old son, David, who was one of the Navy pilots.
"He just had his first F/A-18 flight," Tom Reis said. "Oh man, he loved it."
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the fourth person was a 31-year-old man from Chula Vista.
David Reis held a mechanical engineering degree from the University of New Mexico and had just taken his first flight aboard an F/A-18 fighter jet. His sister, Karen, graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 2009 and stayed in the area, coaching volleyball and working at a grocery store.
"It's still a shocker," said Rebecca Bailey, 26, who played college volleyball with Karen Reis and later coached with her at a high school and club program. "This kind of thing doesn't happen to people like her and David. Their family is the family everybody wants to be a part of. They're just so loving, and there's so much love in their family."
Neighbor Don Hubbard said he was awakened by shots that he thought were fired by New Year's revelers. He went back to sleep, but two hours later got a phone call and heard SWAT teams swarming the area.
Hubbard, a retired Navy commander, said he saw the body of one man in the condo doorway and recognized him as his neighbor - a Navy pilot receiving training at Miramar.
"I knew these guys were pilots because I was one and we'd talk about airplanes," Hubbard said. "Even now, you say, how could this have happened? What the hell is going on here?"
Coronado is home to Naval Air Station North Island and is a haven for Navy retirees.
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