Crime & Safety
Suicide Victim ID'd as Former Vista Murrieta HS Student
The body of Darren Scott Davis, 21, was found Tuesday in an open space area of Murrieta.
The death of a 21-year-old Murrieta man was confirmed as suicide.
The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner's Office identified Darren Scott Davis as the man found hanging from a tree Tuesday in a dirt lot behind the 37000 block of Flora Court.
An employee at the Coroner's Office confirmed the death was "mannered as a suicide."
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Murrieta police were alerted to the body .
Patch later learned that a group of runners were returning from a workout in the open-space area behind the housing tract when they came upon the body and reported it.
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According to Davis' Facebook page, he was a prior student at Vista Murrieta High School.
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