18-foot shark kills man at Calif. beach

Sunday, October 24, 2010

LOS ANGELES -- Matthew Garcia was surfing two feet away from his friend Friday morning when he heard a desperate cry for help. Within seconds, a shark flashed out of the water, bit into his friend's leg and pulled him under in a cloud of blood off the coast north of Santa Barbara.

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