Sergio Armando Vargas, a 54-year-old Latino male, died Monday, Feb. 25, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Bell, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Bruce Larrie Johnson, a 71-year-old white male, died Tuesday, Feb. 12, after sustaining blunt force trauma.

David Cirilo Cervantes, a 60-year-old white male, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Glendale, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Francisco Ruiz Morones, a 60-year-old white male, died Monday, Jan. 28, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Boyle Heights, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

William Bailey, a 54-year-old black male, died Monday, Jan. 14, after sustaining blunt force trauma in North Hollywood, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Marcus Smith, a 48-year-old black male, died Monday, Jan. 7, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Westlake, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Jeffery Allen Brand Jr., a 35-year-old black male, died Sunday, Jan. 6, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Florence, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Nadia Solis, a 41-year-old Latina, was pronounced dead on Saturday, Jan. 5, after she was struck in the head in the 8700 block of Orange Street in Whittier, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators. 

Deputies went to the home where Solis lived with her long-time boyfriend, Luis Rey JimenezJimenez, after coworkers requested a welfare check because she hadn't come to work for several days, said Lt. Derrick Alfred. 

Worried co-workers had come to the house earlier in the week and talked to a relative who was babysitting, The Times reported. The relative said Solis had left and no one knew where she had gone. 

On Saturday, however, deputies felt like "things weren't adding up" when they questioned JimenezJimenez, 44, and asked to search the house, Alfred said. Then they noticed JimenezJimenez's car in the carport and asked for the keys. 

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Frank Borsotti, a 61-year-old white male, was pronounced dead on Thursday, Jan. 3, after he was punched in a Jack in the Box parking lot at 436628 10th Street West in Lancaster, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators.

Borsotti was next to his pickup truck in the parking lot about 12:45 p.m, when he was confronted by a man who got out of a champagne-colored sedan, said Sheriff's Sgt. Guillermo Morales.

“There was some type of argument, but we don’t know what the source of the argument is," Morales said. "We don't know what precipitated this, but the suspect got out of the car and punched the victim."

The assault was captured on surveillance video from a nearby business, obtained by KTLA-TV Channel 5 and other news outlets. 

In the video, the sedan pulls up behind Borsotti’s pickup and Borsotti ...

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Tranel Tyrone Reed, a 52-year-old black male, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Historic South-Central, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Jack Hernandez, a 89-year-old Latino male, died Thursday, Dec. 20, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Downtown, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Kelsey Camila Meza, a 17-year-old Latina, was pronounced dead on Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the 800 block of West Colorado Boulevard in Monrovia, according to Los Angeles County authorities.

Kelsey was found in her upstairs apartment along with her 41-year-old mother, Cecilia Meza, who was also dead, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Derrick Alfred.  

The mother’s boyfriend, Nimrod Perez Guerrero, 33, also lived in the apartment and is now wanted as a suspect in the double slaying, Alfred said. 

The three lived across the street from Monrovia High School, where Kelsey was a senior. Tearful students gathered outside the apartment on Wednesday afternoon as investigators worked at the scene. 

“There were lots of very upset children outside,” Alfred said. “She was liked by plenty of people.”

Monrovia School District Supt. Katherine Thorossian issued a statement on Thursday, saying the school would be providing ...

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Luis Fernando Cuba, a 47-year-old Latino male, died Saturday, Dec. 1, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Lawndale, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Robert Peter Pimentel, a 70-year-old Latino male, died Thursday, Nov. 29, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Norwalk, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

 Johanna Lissette Mejia Gayton, a 17-year-old Latina, was pronounced dead on Saturday, Nov. 24, after her body was found off the East Fork Road about 1.25 miles east of San Gabriel Canyon Road in the Angeles Crest area of Angeles National Forest, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. 

People looking for recyclables along the East Fork Road looked into a culvert just north of the road, along the edge of a large turnout, and spotted the teenager lying face down in the dirt around 1:15 p.m., said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Derrick Alfred.

Johanna was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:47 p.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma to the head. 

Investigators believe Johanna was struck and killed at the scene, Alfred said, but they don't have a ...

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