Man dies after he’s hit by Amtrak train in San Diego

A man died late Wednesday after he was struck by a southbound Amtrak train in San Diego, authorities said.

San Diego police were called shortly after 11:05 p.m. to the intersection of California and West Grape streets in the Harborview neighborhood where they found the victim, said sheriff's Sgt. Jason King.

He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Sheriff 's Transit Enforcement Unit investigates incidents along the routes of the North County Transit District, which Amtrak uses. San Diego police requested the unit to conduct the investigation.

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Swimmer suffering from hypothermia pulled from ocean

SAN DIEGO

San Diego lifeguards early Thursday rescued a woman suffering from hypothermia who said she had been swimming all night, a lifeguard lieutenant said.

Lifeguards were called around 5:40 a.m. after someone on the Ocean Beach pier spotted the woman, who was wearing a wetsuit and fins and was floating in the water, Lifeguard Lt. Rick Romero told OnScene TV.

Romero said the woman was swimming alone.

Lifeguards were able to get the woman into a rescue boat, where she “started to seize a little bit” and was talking incoherently, Romero said.

She told lifeguards she had been out swimming in the ocean all night.

“She wasn't struggling in the water, she was kind of floating out there,” Romero said.

The woman was taken to a hospital. No other information was immediately available.

Detectives arrest suspect in East County homicide

EAST COUNTY

Sheriff's detectives announced Thursday they had arrested a suspect in a man's slaying earlier this month in Harbison Canyon.

The body of Samuel Holthaus, 59, was found Sept. 3 on Harbison Canyon Road, east of El Cajon, Lt. Anthony O'Boyle said in a news release.

The suspect, Kenneth McNally, 40, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in El Cajon Superior Court, according to online jail records.

On Sept. 3, deputies received a report of a “suspicious death” around 3:30 p.m., O'Boyle said. Holthaus' body was found with “apparent trauma to the upper body,” the lieutenant said.

The manner of death was determined to be “homicide,” the Sheriff 's Department said.