Community mourns man found dead in Santa Barbara apartment

Photos, flowers and candles fill a memorial honoring Lawrence Matthew Brennen Jr. outside his family’s home on Ninth Street in Carpinteria. Brennen, 39, who was affectionately known as “Shorty,” grew up in Carpinteria and is remembered by family and friends for his generosity, kindness and devotion to his four children. Lawrence Matthew Brennen Jr., 39, who grew up in Carpinteria and was known to friends and family as “Shorty,” has been identified as the man found dead under suspicious circumstances in a Santa Barbara apartment on Oct. 28.According to the Santa Barbara Police Department, officers responded to a welfare check on Oct. 27 in the 100 block of Los Aguajes Avenue.

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