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Police Release Name of One Killing Victim : Crime: No motive has been found for the shooting of construction worker Harry Vaughan and another man.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Police on Thursday identified one of the two men shot to death this week as Harry Vaughan, 47, a construction worker from Fountain Valley who was remembered by friends as animated and outgoing.

Vaughan and another man were found dead Tuesday in a warehouse in the 7500 block of Slater Avenue, an industrial area.

The bodies were discovered by Vaughan’s girlfriend, Shelley Coleman, who went to the warehouse to meet Vaughan on Tuesday morning. Police believe the men were killed sometime after Sunday.

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Police have not released the name of the second victim and said they have found no motive for the shootings.

Vaughan, who was born in Corona, lived in Orange County for most of his life, authorities said. He worked with Western Insulation, a Riverside-based construction company, from 1988 to 1990 at its Santa Ana plant, officials said.

Dave Barnes, the company’s branch manager, described Vaughan as lighthearted and a hard worker who was prompt to work.

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“All his supervisors loved him,” Barnes said. “Harry stood out because he was intelligent, boisterous and outgoing.”

Barnes added that Vaughan had a notorious knack for details in telling his personal experiences.

“Harry had a story for everything,” Barnes said. “Anything you did, he had done it, just differently. Some of the stuff was really out there.”

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Vaughan, described as a burly blond man resembling “the skipper” from the sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” used to talk about the Vietnam War, Barnes said.

Barnes said he last heard that Vaughan was working on mobile homes.

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