Adam Gilbert Calderon, a 30-year-old Latino male, died Monday, Feb. 11, in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Chloe Marie Corona, a 28-year-old black woman, was fatally shot on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the 44000 block of Cedar Avenue in Lancaster, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner records. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies went to a home on Cedar Avenue after their office received a 911 hang-up call regarding a possible gunshot victim at 2:10 a.m., said Lt. Derrick Alfred. 

When deputies arrived they found the front door to the house open and several people standing outside waiting, Alfred said. 

The deputies found Corona lying on the living room floor, Alfred said. She was pronounced dead at the 2:30 a.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as multiple gunshot wounds. 

Corona lived a few miles away and investigators don't know why she was at the house on Cedar Avenue, Alfred said ...

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Everardo Castro, a 26-year-old Latino, was fatally crushed on Thursday, Jan. 24, in the 38000 block of 35th Street East in Palmdale, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner records. 

Castro and his sister got into an argument with her boyfriend, Esteban Reyes-Rojas, around 4 p.m., on a residential street, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department news release.

Reyes-Rojas allegedly got into his car, a tan 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, and chased the brother and sister down, striking Castro and pinning him to the garage door of a house, Sheriff's Lt. Scott Hoglund said.  

Castro was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:11 p.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as crushing torso injuries.

His sister suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to the news release. 

Investigators have identified Reyes-Rojas as the suspect ...

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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.

Susie Drake, a 73-year-old white female, died Tuesday, Dec. 4, in Baldwin Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Wenna Chen, a 54-year-old Asian female, died Sunday, Nov. 25, in Azusa, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Catrina Ann Johnson, a 24-year-old black female, died Saturday, Nov. 17, in Commerce, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Julieta Arvizu, a 49-year-old Latina, was pronounced dead on Thursday, Oct. 11, after her body was found in the 30900 block of East 106th Street in the southeast Antelope Valley community of Littlerock, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.  

Investigators have not released any details about Arvizu's death except to confirm that hers was one of five decomposed bodies found on the property, and one of eight homicides connected to the suspected drug dealer who rented the house, Jesus "Chuy" Guzman, 34. 

Guzman was evicted from the property on Aug. 30, the same day Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators served a search warrant there, said Det. David Gunner. Guzman was not home at the time, he said.

Investigators found evidence of methamphetamine production, weapons and stolen trucks and trailers on the property on Aug. 30, Gunner said, but it wasn't until Oct. 11 ...

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Jose Jorge Lara Paez, a 66-year-old Latino, was pronounced dead on Thursday, Oct. 11, after his body was found in the 30900 block of East 106th Street in the Southeast Antelope Valley community of Littlerock, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.  

Investigators have not released any details about Lara Paez's death except to confirm that his was one of five decomposed bodies found on the property, and one of eight homicides connected to the suspected drug dealer who rented the house, Jesus "Chuy" Guzman, 34. 

Guzman was evicted from the property on Aug. 30, the same day Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators served a search warrant there, said Det. David Gunner. Guzman was not home at the time, he said.

Investigators found evidence of methamphetamine production, weapons and stolen trucks and trailers on the property on Aug. 30, but it wasn't until Oct ...

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Guy Eugene Alford, a 20-year-old black man, was fatally shot on Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the 5100 block of Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

Alford was inside a blue Chevrolet Impala in the parking lot of a Jack in the Box restaurant at East 52nd Street and Atlantic Avenue around 12:15 a.m. when he was shot in the torso, according to a news release from the Long Beach Police Department. 

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:25 a.m., according to coroner’s records. 

Long Beach investigators have not released any details about the shooting, and say they don’t have a motive. 

CBS-TV Channel 2 reporter Dave Lopez reported that he watched surveillance video from a nearby business that showed Alford in the drive-thru lane of the restaurant when another car pulled ...

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Vanessa Marquez, a 49-year-old Latina, was fatally shot by police officers Thursday, Aug. 30, in the 1100 block of Fremont Avenue in South Pasadena, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators. 

Marquez was an actress who starred as student Ana Delgado in the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” and appeared regularly as nurse Wendy Goldman on the popular television medical drama “ER” between 1994 and 1997.

About noon on Aug. 30, Marquez’s landlord asked the South Pasadena Police Department to check on her welfare because he was worried about her health, said sheriff’s Lt. Joe Mendoza. 

Three officers and a mental health clinician who was working with the officers went to Marquez’s home and noticed she was having “brief” seizures, Mendoza said. 

They called paramedics, who came to help Marquez, he said. The seizures ended but Marquez was not cooperative and refused to ...

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Samuel Ferguson, a 27-year-old black male, died Friday, Aug. 17, in Cerritos, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Anthony Daniel Vargas, a 21-year-old Latino, was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies on Sunday, Aug. 12, in the 4900 block of East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

A man reported around 2 a.m. that his watch had been stolen by three Latinos in their 30s, one with a gun tucked in his waistband, on North Mednik Avenue near the Nueva Maravilla Housing Community.

Deputies tried to detain Vargas while searching for the robbery suspects in the 504-unit housing complex, according to Lt. Derrick Alfred. Vargas ran and hid from deputies, ignored their orders and resisted their attempts to handcuff him before he pulled a gun from his waistband, Alfred said.

“They engage in a violent struggle, and when [the deputies] are reaching around to get hold of his hands, one feels a gun ...

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Melyda Corado, a 27-year-old woman, was shot and killed by police Saturday, July 21, at 2738 Hyperion Ave. in Silver Lake, police said.

Corado, the manager of a Trader Joe’s market, was killed by police gunfire in an hours-long standoff with an armed suspect, police said three days after the shooting.

“On behalf of myself and the rest of the Department, I want to express my deepest condolences and sympathy to her family and everyone that knew her,” LAPD Chief Michel Moore said of Corado. “I know that it’s every officer’s worst nightmare to hurt an innocent bystander during a violent engagement. I spoke with the officers this morning — they’re devastated. They were devastated in the immediate aftermath of this event.”

Initially, it was unclear whether the gunfire that killed Corado was from the suspect or police. LAPD released car dashboard and body camera video earlier than ...

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Carmelo Pizarro Jr., a 22-year-old Latino, was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies on Thursday, July 19, in the 7100 block of Pico Vista Road in Pico Rivera, according to Lt. Joe Mendoza. 

Pizarro was shot after crashing his car and running from deputies, Mendoza said, and authorities say he was initially armed but threw down his gun during a foot chase. 

Deputies suspected Pizarro was driving drunk when they first spotted his Mitsubishi Eclipse at Washington and Passons boulevards at 1:37 a.m., Mendoza said. They tried to pull him over but Pizarro sped away, he said, and deputies pursued. Blocks away, Pizarro crashed into a light post and parked vehicle at Eglise Avenue and Bert Street. 

Pizarro got out of his car, Mendoza said, “and fled on foot, armed with a handgun.”

Mendoza said he couldn’t go into specifics ...

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