Updated, 5:30 p.m., August 20: "The cause and manner of death is a suicide, by a self-inflicted gunshot wound," according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office in a statment this afternoon. "Next of kin has been notified."
Search teams on Saturday evening discovered the body of Los Angeles County Fire Captain Wayne Habell in the mountains above Montecito.
The 43-year-old husband and father of three had been missing for several days, last seen leaving his Newhall home on the morning of August 13; four days later his black Chrysler SUV, parked at the Hot Springs trailhead on East Mountain Drive, was reported as a suspicious vehicle.