Santa Cruz police are seeking the reason for the city’s first homicide of the year.
The victim of the Sunday homicide on Emeline Avenue Sunday has been identified as 37-year-old Daniel Worth Hartley. Police say he is originally from Pennsylvania and may have only lived in the Santa Cruz area since 2019.
Hartley’s living conditions are not known, but police say they believe he was unsheltered. He died from blunt force trauma to the head.
