San Diego

San Diego homicide investigators were trying to determine the identity of a man whose body was found by a group of children Thursday on Black Mountain Road about two miles east of Carmel Valley Road. An autopsy was not expected until today, but Deputy Coroner William Leard said the man had been shot once in the head. The children had seen the body lying beside the road Wednesday but thought the man was asleep, Leard said. However, it was still there when they returned Thursday, so police were notified. The body was described as that of a white man in his early 20s with long red hair and a Fu Manchu mustache, about 6 feet tall and weighing about 150 pounds. The man had the letters THC tattooed between his left thumb and index finger.