ORCUTT - It was by all accounts a beautiful Labor Day afternoon at the Orcutt Community Park at Rice Ranch when an apparent family dispute at a barbeque pit ended with deadly gunfire.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department says Santa Maria resident Brian Keith Reid was arrested at Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria after the shooting. Reid has been booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on charges of murder and attempted murder.
The Sheriff's Department says it found Reid's abandoned Jeep on a Highway 101 overpass in Santa Maria after the shooting Monday night and that Reid had checked himself in at Marian Medical Center for an injury unrelated to the shooting.
A Santa Barbara County parks crew spent Tuesday morning after the shooting cleaning up the barbeque pits area next to the main bathroom at Orcutt Community Park which became a crime scene.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department detectives also combed the crime scene where spray paint marks the location of where the deadly shooting took place and where the victim fell to the pavement.
"The first thing I head was a bunch of commotion", says local resident Alex who said he walked up into the family dispute Monday afternoon at about 6:00pm., "just yelling, you could hear yelling back and forth."
Requesting we not reveal his identity, Alex says he walked up and heard the alleged family argument at the barbeque pit, and then turned around and started walking the other way when he heard gunshots.
"The one guy was laying on the ground, and there was a lady who was laying on the table", Alex says about the scene immediately after the shooting.
Alex says there were no other people standing around the shooting incident, only the three people involved.
"It probably was at least six or seven pops, somewhere in that neighborhood", Alex says about hearing the gunshots, "I wasn't counting because I wasn't expecting to hear that, but it was more than just one."
The Orcutt Community Park is a Santa Barbara County park that is part of the Rice Ranch master planned residential development.
The county park is very popular and was crowded with visitors when the shooting took place.
"Anytime you hear that somebody is shot, it sets you back a little bit", says park neighbor Linda Kennedy, "you like to think that it doesn't happen in your back yard, but it does."
The county kept the park closed until Tuesday morning.
