Elvis Puentes, a 2-year-old male, died Friday, Jan. 11, in Covina, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Zaraellia Carol Thompson, a 4-year-old black female, died Sunday, Dec. 2.

Jay Salinas Onofre, a Latino male, died Wednesday, July 11, in Westlake, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Olivia Ma, a Asian female, died Tuesday, May 8, after sustaining blunt force trauma.

Franklin Pon-Ros, a 3-year-old boy of Cambodian-Laotian descent, died on Saturday, Jan. 20, after he was shot in the 2800 block of West Alondra Boulevard in Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

Franklin was in the back seat of a car when his mother and her boyfriend stopped in the parking lot of Nate’s Liquor Mart at West Alondra Boulevard and South McKinley Avenue about 7:40 p.m., said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Joe Mendoza. 

The boyfriend walked into the store briefly, passing another man standing at the counter, according to surveillance video made public on KTLA5 and other networks this week. The men saw each other but did not speak in the store, Mendoza said. 

The man at the counter left and walked to his car, which was parked near the door. The boyfriend left the store a few ...

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Makayla Keanna Prenatt, a 3-year-old black female, died Wednesday, Dec. 20, after sustaining blunt force trauma.

Camille Brewster Hickman, a black female, died Thursday, Oct. 19, in Historic South-Central, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Axel Gavin Herrera, a Latino male, died Thursday, Sept. 28, after sustaining blunt force trauma.

Dax Jordan Quintana Oliveira, a 2-month-old Latino boy, died Thursday, Aug. 31, after suffering head and neck trauma in the 3500 block of Brenton Avenue in Lynnwood, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were called to the Oliveira home about 3 p.m. Aug. 29 regarding an unresponsive baby, Lt. Derrick Alfred said. 

Paramedics took the baby to the hospital, where he was treated for trauma to his head and neck, Alfred said.

Dax was pronounced dead at the hospital two days later at 5:36 a.m., according to coroner’s records. 

Investigators think Dax had been shaken violently by his father. Both the boy’s parents were home and in the same room at the time, Alfred said.

Dax’s father, Sanderson de Oliveira, also known as Sanderson Dantas, a 33-year-old Brazilian, was arrested the day his ...

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Baby Acosta, a 15-week-old fetus, died Sunday, Aug. 6, after its mother was shot in the 1200 block of West Victoria Avenue in Montebello, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Montebello police found the mother, Roxann Felicia Acosta, a 28-year-old Latina, suffering from a gunshot wound at a residence about 10 p.m., according to Sgt. Marc Marty. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:22 p.m., according to coroner’s records. 

Detectives thought Acosta was killed by her husband, Christopher Michael Diaz, 26. The two were estranged, Marty said, but had spent the day together before ending up at Diaz’s mother’s house in Montebello.

Acosta and Diaz had an argument, and witnesses heard gunshots, Marty said. Diaz’s mother was in the house but in another room; other people also were in the home.

Diaz fled, and no weapons were found at the ...

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Aramazd Andressian Jr., a 5-year-old male, died Friday, June 30.

Ezekiel Messiah Dozier, a 5-month-old black baby, died March 9, 2017, after suffering head trauma and having been shaken in the 400 block of Madison Avenue in Pomona, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

Pomona police responded about 7 p.m. March 5 to a house where Dozier’s grandmother had called 911, saying the baby was unresponsive. Police found the boy was barely breathing on his own, Sgt. Brian Hagerty said. 

Paramedics transported Ezekiel to a hospital, where doctors determined he was suffering from shaken baby syndrome as well as head trauma. The boy died four days later, at 12:27 p.m. March 9, according to coroner’s records. Ezekiel had a twin sister, who was not harmed, Hagerty said.

Detectives discovered the twins had been left in the care of their father, Brandon Dozier, while their mother was on vacation, Hagerty said. 

Investigators interviewed Dozier several days ...

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Baby Girl Reeves, a black female, died Thursday, Feb. 23, after being shot in Vermont Knolls, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Babyboy Preciado, a male, died Tuesday, Nov. 29.

Lexington Elliot Brandon, an 8-month-old black baby, died Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the 3200 block of Flower Street in Lynwood, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators. 

Lexington's maternal grandmother called 911 about 4:53 p.m. after she walked into the kitchen where her daughter was giving the baby a bath, Lt. Mike Rosson said. 

“The mother was holding the baby in her arms, and the baby appeared to be in great distress,” Rosson said. “He was looking dead.”

Paramedics took the unresponsive baby to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m., according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

The coroner’s office has not listed a formal cause of death, pending toxicology results and other tests, Rosson said. However, he said, there is evidence the baby drowned in a small plastic bathtub in the kitchen ...

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