Shark That Killed Calif. Surfer Was Likely Great White

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Experts say the shark that bit and killed a surfer off California's central coast probably was a great white and may have been 15 feet long.

Thirty-nine-year-old Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. of Orcutt was bitten in the upper torso in the waters off Surf Beach in Santa Barbara County on Tuesday. He died at the scene.