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18-Year Old Vacaville High School Student Found Shot To Death In Truck Outside Apartment Building

VACAVILLE (CBS SF) -- Vacaville police are investigating the fatal shooting of a high school student early Monday morning.

Demetrious Ward, 18, a Vacaville High School student, was found shot once in the driver's seat of a Ford F-150 truck after police received a report about gunfire around 1:30 a.m., police Lt. Matt Lydon said.

The truck was in the parking lot of the Canyon Creek Apartments at 159 Aegean Way, Lydon said.

Ward was taken to a hospital for surgery and died at 4:30 a.m., Lydon said.

Police are questioning potential witnesses and have taken the single-cab truck into evidence, Lydon said.

Ward did not live in the apartment complex, Lydon said. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.

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