Sacramento Man Killed In Central California Shark Attack On Christmas Eve

MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — A Sacramento antheral was killed by a Christmas Eve shark onslaught successful cardinal California aft deciding to spell boogie boarding, friends and household members said.

Tomas Butterfield, 42, of Sacramento, was killed Friday greeting successful Morro Bay adjacent Morro Bay State Beach, a spokesperson for California State Parks confirmed to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

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Butterfield had gone to the country for a household gathering astatine his mother’s home, Grant Butterfield, his uncle, told the paper.

Butterfield moved respective times aft his parent and begetter divorced and helium attended precocious schoolhouse successful Alaska, his uncle said.

“His parent would spell connected abrogation someplace and autumn successful emotion with the spot and she’d extremity up moving there. So determination was a batch of moving around,” helium said. “They ended up successful Ketchikan, Alaska.”

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Tomas wasn’t joined and precocious had been moving for his begetter astatine a aesculapian laboratory instrumentality repair institution successful Sacramento. He loved fishing, boogie boarding, and golfing, his uncle said.

“Tomas was precise quiescent and had benignant of a wry consciousness of humor,” helium said. “If you could get a full-throated laughter retired of him, you were a winner.”

Butterfield was pulled from the waves aft a surfer saw him look down successful the h2o with a boogie committee floating nearby. He died astatine the scene.

The shark was apt a large white, Morro Bay Harbor Director Eric Endersby said.

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Morro Bay is astir 200 miles northbound of Los Angeles.