Lifeguard rescue team
A lifeguard rescue team at the top of the cliff where the accident occurred. Courtesy OnScene.TV

Authorities Thursday publicly identified a 64-year-old man found dead last weekend at the foot of a sea bluff at La Jolla Shores Beach.

A passersby spotted the body of La Jolla resident David Romney Bourne on an outcropping of rocks under a roughly 75-foot-tall ocean-front cliff off the 1300 block of Coast Walk about 6:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Bourne’s death was ruled an accident.

First reports said the victim was a woman.

— City News Service