Authorities have arrested a suspect accused of killing a man found dead in Borrego Springs home Saturday morning.
Mark Peter Waugh, 53, has been booked into the Vista Detention Facility on a single count of murder, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSO).
The incident happened Saturday at approximately 7:45 a.m., deputies said. A man, identified as Borrego Springs resident Brett Leslie Boynton, 52, was found unresponsive and lying on the floor of a home in the 400 block of Verbena Drive. Both the men were residents of the Verbena Drive address, deputies said.
Deputies from the SDSO’s Borrego Springs office initially received a report of a possibly dead man inside the residence.
Deputies said the man had suffered “obvious signs of trauma,” and homicide detectives were called to take over the investigation.
The cause of death was blunt force trauma with possible strangulation, deputies said.
The investigation is ongoing. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office will perform an autopsy on the man to determine his cause and manner of death. Those details are forthcoming.
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Anyone with information on this case can call the SDSO’s Homicide Detail at (858) 974-2321 or (858) 565-5200, or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
