Evan Gaulhiac, a 19-year-old Latino male, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, after being stabbed in Pico Rivera, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Alejandro Saenz, a 36-year-old Latino male, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, after being stabbed in Central-Alameda, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Lamont Ramon Alexander, a 34-year-old black male, died Tuesday, Dec. 18, after being stabbed in South Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Melanie Ann Cunningham, a 58-year-old white female, died Monday, Dec. 17, after being stabbed in East Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

James Arthur Estrella, a 55-year-old Latino male, died Monday, Dec. 10, after being stabbed in Pomona, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Alejandro Machuca Franco, a 25-year-old Latino male, died Thursday, Nov. 29, after being stabbed in Norwalk, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Xuezhong Bao, a 62-year-old Asian male, died Tuesday, Nov. 27, after being stabbed in Duarte, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Arthur Willis, a 34-year-old black male, died Monday, Nov. 26, after being stabbed in Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Rackeim Rashaad Francis, a 21-year-old black male, died Thursday, Nov. 22, after being stabbed in Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Fernando David Perez, a 58-year-old Latino, died on Thursday, Nov. 8, after he was stabbed in the 500 block of West 9th Street,  between Hope Street and Grand Avenue, in downtown Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. 

Perez, a homeless man who stayed in the downtown area where the stabbing occurred, was sitting on a bench at 8:30 p.m. when he was attacked by a tall, thin white man in a grey hooded sweatshirt that read "Thrasher" across the front, said Los Angeles police Det. Jason Sharman during a Dec. 19 news conference.

The assailant stabbed Perez multiple times with what appeared to be a screwdriver or ice pick, and then picked up a backpack next to the victim and walked away, Sharman said after the news conference. 

Perez was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead two ...

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John Edward Venti, a 74-year-old white male, died Friday, Nov. 2, after being stabbed in Diamond Bar, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Linda Kay Venti, a 68-year-old white female, died Friday, Nov. 2, after being stabbed in Diamond Bar, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Ralph Rivera, a 60-year-old Latino male, died Friday, Nov. 2, after being stabbed in Lincoln Heights, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Kenneth Lamont Combs, a 57-year-old black male, died Wednesday, Oct. 31, after being stabbed in Vermont Square, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Brooke Lavon Jackson, a 40-year-old black woman, was fatally stabbed on Friday, Oct. 26, in the 4200 block of Carlin Avenue in Lynwood, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

Deputies were called to the home where Jackson lived with her husband, Dennis Ray Jackson, 47, and their two children around 8:44 a.m., according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Rodney Moore. 

Investigators found Jackson in her bedroom with multiple stab wounds, Moore said. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:57 a.m., according to coroner’s records. 

Her husband was found inside his car, which was parked in the driveway, with a gunshot wound to the head, said Det. Marcelo Quintero. He was also pronounced dead at the scene at 8:53 a.m., according to coroner’s records. His death was ruled a suicide. 

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