Crime & Safety

Suicide Victim Was Fallbrook Teacher

A Bonsall man who shot himself in the head on a porch in Old Town Temecula was a grade school teacher.

A man who killed himself on a porch in Old Town Temecula was a teacher in Fallbrook, a coroner released.

The body was identified as 50-year-old Bonsall resident Adrian Lee Lafave, according to the coroner.

He died at 2:21 p.m. in front of the historic Temecula Hotel in the 42000 block of Main Street across from .

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The body was discovered bloodied and slumped in a rocking chair still clutching a .22 caliber revolver. To read about how it was discovered, .

The man was a teacher at Iowa Street School in the Fallbrook Union School District, according to the school's website and a local newspaper report.

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The lightly-trafficked street was closed off on Saturday for several hours while the coroner investigated the scene. To see a photo gallery, .


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