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    'We've lost Tom': Fatal shark attack in Morro Bay devastates family and alarms surfers

    LOS ANGELES — Grant Butterfield was watching the movie "Elf" at a dinner party on Christmas Eve when his brother's name flashed across his cellphone. Butterfield figured he was calling to wish him a happy holiday and cheerfully answered. "We've lost Tom," his brother said. His brother's son, Tomas, was only 42. Butterfield wondered what could have possibly happened. A heart attack? A car ...
    by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times Jan 02, 2022 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — Grant Butterfield was watching the movie "Elf" at a dinner party on Christmas Eve when his brother's name flashed across his cellphone.

    Butterfield figured he was calling to wish him a happy holiday and cheerfully answered.

    "We've lost Tom," his brother said.

    His brother's son, Tomas, was only 42. Butterfield wondered what could have possibly happened. A heart attack? A car crash?

    Tomas Butterfield, it would turn out, died in the place he loved the most: the sea. He was riding a body board in Morro Bay that morning when a great white shark killed him in what is believed to be the first fatal shark attack in San Luis Obispo County in 18 years.

    The victim of the attack near Morro Rock was publicly identified by his uncle last week.

    California State Parks confirmed his identity Thursday. Butterfield,

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