Jean Paul Camara, a 72-year-old Black male, died Wednesday, July 15, after being stabbed near San Pedro & 4th streets in Downtown, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Calletana Jaramillo, a 65-year-old Latino female, died Tuesday, July 14, in Carson, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Marcus Aaron Drake, a 37-year-old Black male, died Saturday, July 11, after being shot near 21738 S. Acarus Ave. in Carson, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Omar Navarro Nieves, a 45-year-old Latino male, died Friday, July 10, after being shot near 1247 S. Augusta Ave. in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Eddie Johnny Roberts, a 78-year-old Black male, died Thursday, July 9, after being stabbed near the S/E corner of S. Crenshaw & West Jefferson boulevards in West Adams, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Daniel Garcia, a 53-year-old Latino male, died Wednesday, July 8, after sustaining blunt force trauma near 200 E Ave K in Lancaster, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Elias Alejandre, a 35-year-old Latino male, died Wednesday, July 8, after being shot near 12400 Long Beach Blvd. in Lynwood, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Gustavo A Ramirez, a 44-year-old Latino male, died Wednesday, July 8, after sustaining blunt force trauma near 14054 Vanowen St. in Valley Glen, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Steven Douglas Runnel, a 49-year-old Black man, was shot and killed Tuesday, July 7, in the 1800 block of East 105th Street in Watts, according to coroner’s records.

Shortly after 8 p.m., Runnel was standing in front of a home hanging out with other people, said Los Angeles police Det. Nathan Kouri. A dark-colored sedan drove up, stopped a few houses down and a person inside began shooting in the direction of the group, Kouri said.

Runnel and a man in his 20s were struck. Runnel was pronounced dead at 8:20 p.m. at the scene, according to coroner’s records. The other man is expected to survive. 

The sedan drove off in an unknown direction, police said. 

Runnel, a barber and father of eight, died around the corner from his shop. The green building has no signage out front and is known in the neighborhood simply as "Steve's," said Jeffrey Rencher, …

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Gregory Leonard Taylor Jr., a 32-year-old Black male, died Tuesday, July 7, after being shot near the 800 block of West 82nd Street in Vermont Knolls, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Ronald Craig Brown, a 53-year-old Black male, died Tuesday, July 7, after being shot near the 2300 block of East Caldwell Street in Compton, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Edgar Roberto Vazquez Moreno, a 20-year-old Latino male, died Tuesday, July 7, after being shot near 373 E. Piru St. in Willowbrook, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Im Sook Han, a 67-year-old Asian female, died Monday, July 6, after being strangled near the 500 block of Los Altos Avenue in Arcadia, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Jerry E. Lewis, a 50-year-old Black man, was shot and killed Sunday, July 5, in the 2300 block of Rosecrans Avenue in Gardena, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

About 7 p.m., officers from the Gardena Police Department responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon, according to a news release from the department. Officers found Lewis, who had been shot in the lower body, police said. 

Police said that Lewis walked into a market without a mask and got into an argument with a security guard there. Lewis left the store, then came back and got into a physical fight with the security guard, identified by police as Umeir Corniche Hawkins, 38. 

During the fight, police said that Hawkins’ wife, Sabrina Carter, 50, who was waiting for Hawkins to get out of work, walked up and pointed a gun at Lewis and others, stopping the …

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James Horace Warren, a 33-year-old Black man, was shot and killed Sunday, July 5, near East 124th and South San Pedro streets in Willowbrook, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

About 1:40 a.m., Warren and a 31-year-old man were shot in the area, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Warren was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other man was taken to a hospital. 

The Sheriff’s Department did not say what led to the shooting, but said that the shooter fled the location in a white vehicle.

Anyone with information is asked to call the department’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

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