Pilot Killed Self, 3 Others On New Year’s Day
Authorities confirmed today that the shooting deaths of four people, including two military aviators, in a Coronado condominium early on New Year’s morning were a case of murder-suicide.
Slain in the rampage in the 1000 block of Park Place were Navy pilot David Reis, 25, his 24-year-old sister, Karen, and 31-year-old Matthew Saturley of Chula Vista, sheriff’s homicide Capt. Duncan Fraser said.
David Reis’ roommate and fellow Navy flier, John Robert Reeves, 25, killed himself following the murders with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Fraser.
Authorities have disclosed no suspected motive for the crime.
Shortly before 2:30 a.m. Sunday, patrol officers responding to a 911 call about gunfire in the upscale neighborhood near the Hotel Del Coronado found the body of a man lying in the front doorway of the condo in the 1000 block of Park Place.
Using a camera-equipped robot, a SWAT team discovered the other bodies inside the multi-story residence.
David Reis died of a single gunshot, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office. His sister, who worked as an assistant volleyball coach at a local high school, suffered multiple wounds, as did Saturley.
A man who lives next door to the condominium described hearing the deadly gunfire. Retired Navy pilot Don Hubbard said he heard “two shots, about a five-second pause, and then five more,”
Sources told KGTV that Reeves and the Reis siblings had gone out to downtown San Diego the night before their deaths to celebrate New Year’s Eve and returned to the condominium with Saturley.
