Ex-Deejay Is Found Dead Off Catalina

A former Denver disc jockey known as “Steven B.” was found shot to death in the ocean off Catalina Island, officials said.

The body of Steven B. Williams, 59, was found two weeks ago, and his death is being investigated as a homicide, Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman Dana Camarillo said late this week.

Williams and Don Hawkins were hosts of “Steven B. and the Hawk,” a popular morning show on KBPI-FM in Denver in the early 1980s. Hawkins died during surgery in 1994; Williams moved to California in 2001.

Authorities said Williams’ body was found floating about six miles off Catalina by a passing ship, but the county coroner’s office did not identify it for a week. An autopsy determined he died from a gunshot wound in his upper torso.

Williams worked as an assistant winemaker in Northern California before moving to the Los Angeles area to care for his sick father, said Daryl Sattui, owner of the V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena, where Williams worked for two years. “He was a great guy,” Sattui said.