Homicide investigators are piecing together the last moments of a much-loved young restaurant manager whose body was found beaten to death just feet from the Laguna Beach bar she left on Saturday night.
Tatum Goodwin, 27, was enjoying a night out with friends at the popular California resort and the party had made its way to Hennessey’s Tavern on Ocean Avenue.
At 2am a local resident reportedly heard screaming and, just over six hours later, a construction worker found her body round the corner in a car park, behind an old movie theatre and the branch of Carmelita’s where she had worked for four years.
It’s affected not only me. It’s affected so much of our team,’ said restaurant manager Marcos Heredia.
‘She definitely did not deserve this, just a beautiful person.’
The Orange County Coroner’s Division are conducting a post-mortem on the young woman who had recently broken up with a boyfriend and appeared to be ‘upset’ when she left the bar in the early hours, according to local website underlaguna.com.
She had gone to Hennessey’s after leaving work and is also thought to have stopped for a drink at the Marine Bar on the opposite side of the street at some point in the evening.
‘She was just such a loving, honest person,’ said her friend Aleena Macintosh.
‘You just wouldn’t think that anything would happen to her.’
‘I can’t even think right now. To think this happened right across the street from my work and to someone we all loved so dearly.
‘This world is to cruel to those who don’t deserve it.’
Heredia has set up a gofundme appeal to help pay for funeral costs and to create a memorial to the young woman from San Clemente whose life was ended so suddenly.
‘She was a very hard working young lady and always kept a smile on her face,’ he wrote on her page. ‘Over the years she had expressed her pleasure to be in Laguna and have her opportunity with us.
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