Lynn Areno, a 72-year-old woman from Goleta, was found dead on the evening of September 28, 2025, after deputies responded to a welfare check at an apartment on the 5500 block of Armitos Avenue around 7:33 p.m. Responding Santa Barbara County Sheriff�s deputies discovered her body inside the residence in Old Town Goleta. Early local reporting indicated she had suffered an apparent gunshot wound.
At the scene, deputies detained her son, 32-year-old Christopher Vanvalck, and later booked h
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