Deandre Tyronne Sims, a 36-year-old black male, died Thursday, April 18, in Glendale, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Leon Gough II, a 50-year-old black male, died Thursday, April 18, in Glendale, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Jeffrey Michael Appel, a 32-year-old white male, died Tuesday, April 16, in Carson, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Jamar Lamonte McCollum, a 26-year-old black male, died Monday, April 15, in Green Meadows, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Diane Pamilton Hammack, a 62-year-old black female, died Sunday, April 14, in Lancaster, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Clayton Paul Prejean, a 29-year-old black male, died Sunday, April 14, in Palmdale, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Chyong Jen Tsai, a 76-year-old Asian woman, was pronounced dead on Tuesday, April 9, after she was found unconscious in the 300 block of of East Forest Avenue in Arcadia, according to Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner records. 

Arcadia police went to Tsai's home after receiving a call about a person down, and found her lying in her backyard not breathing, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department news release. 

Tsai and her husband, who was traveling out of country,  are building a granny flat on their property, the Pasadena Star-Times reported. It was one of the construction workers who found her lying in her backyard, not breathing, shortly before 7 a.m.

She was pronounced dead at the scene at 7 a.m., but investigators say it's not clear how she died, The Times reported. 

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Jeffrey Phillip Jackson, a 37-year-old black male, died Sunday, April 7, in East Compton, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Brenda Renteria, a 28-year-old Latino female, died Sunday, April 7, in Hawthorne, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Dario Fredshawn Nixon, a 30-year-old black male, died Saturday, April 6, in Westmont, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

David Agasaryan, a 37-year-old white male, died Tuesday, April 2, in Reseda, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Theodore Kevin Alexander, a 53-year-old black man, was fatally stabbed on Monday, April 1, in the 3800 block of West Slauson Avenue in the View Park-Windsor Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner records. 

Witnesses told investigators they heard people yelling at each other around 2:30 a.m. in some storefront business properties that were being rented out as residences, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Derrick Alfred. 

Alexander and the resident of the space, William Gilbert Sigur, 48, went from arguing to a physical fight inside the building, Alfred said, and then Alexander was stabbed.

Deputies found Alexander lying on the sidewalk, where he was pronounced dead at 2:45 a.m., according to coroner's records. Investigators believe he was stabbed inside the building, "due to the amount of blood evidence found inside the converted residence," and at ...

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Blanca Estela Dominguez, a 43-year-old Latina, was fatally stabbed Sunday, March 31, in the 600 block of West 14th Street in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner’s records.

About 3:20 p.m., officers from the Long Beach Police Department were called to a residence after family members discovered the bodies of Dominguez and her husband, 38-year-old Oscar Montoya, according to a news release from the department.

Dominguez was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:21 p.m., according to coroner’s records.

Investigators believe that Montoya stabbed Dominguez then fatally shot himself. Police recovered two guns and a knife. There wasn't a record of domestic violence between the couple, police said.

Family members went to the home because they were “concerned for their well-being based on recent communication” from the couple, police said in a statement.The couple did not have any children ...

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Luis A. Hernandez, a 21-year-old Latino male, died Sunday, March 31, in Compton, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Rigoberto Najera, a 39-year-old Latino male, died Sunday, March 31, in Compton, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.