La Jolla
A 23-year-old San Diego man was pronounced dead at Scripps Memorial Hospital on Tuesday morning after his car plunged off a 300-foot cliff above Black’s Beach in La Jolla, police said.
Christian Perrin, apparently despondent over a recent break-up with a girlfriend, shot himself in the head before driving off La Jolla Farms Road in the 9300 block about 5:30 a.m., a deputy coroner said.
Perrin’s father had called police a few hours earlier and said he feared that his son was going to kill himself, said Bill Robinson, a police spokesman.
Perrin had called his father from a telephone booth at Torrey Pines Road and La Jolla Shores Drive and said he was upset. When police arrived at the telephone booth, they discovered a note in a sealed envelope.
Police officers were following Perrin when he went off the road.
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