Shark attack victim 'fighting for her life'

SAN ONOFRE – A single mother of three from Vista was "fighting for her life'' in a trauma center today following a San Onofre-area shark attack in which she lost much of her right leg and nearly drowned.

Leeanne Ericson, 35, was swimming in the surf off the coast of Camp Pendleton about 6:30 p.m. Saturday when a shark tore off the back of her thigh "from her glute to her knee,'' her mother, Christine McKnerney Leidle, wrote on a GoFundMe.com page set up to help defray the victim's medical costs.

"She's now in Scripps Memorial Hospital (La Jolla) fighting for her life,'' McKnerney Leidle wrote....