The young man killed last weekend when he fell from a cliff on a beach near Santa Barbara has been identified as a former student at Carlmont High School in Belmont.
Jacob William Aladar Parker, 23, died Saturday, April 20, at a Santa Barbara hospital, the county Sheriff’s Department said. He had fallen around 2:30 that afternoon from the 50-foot cliff along Del Playa Drive in the Isla Vista neighborhood near the University of California campus.
Parker, a 2023 graduate of UC Santa Barbara, lived in San Diego. He returned to Santa Barbara for the weekend’s All-Gaucho reunion and was attending a party at an apartment building in Del Playa when he allegedly scaled a 4-foot fence at the edge of the cliff and fell onto the beach, they said. sources told the Santa Barbara Independent. .
Parker’s LinkedIn page says he graduated in 2019 from Carlmont, then attended Santa Barbara City College before receiving a bachelor’s degree from UCSB last year.
He was the 14th person to die from a fall on the cliffs of Isla Vista since 1994; most of them were students. The dangers prompted the county Board of Supervisors to approve a plan last fall to raise fences along the bluff to 6 feet, among other safety measures.
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