Christopher Ian Vandebrooke, a 48-year-old white man, died of stab wounds Friday, Dec. 16, in the 3000 block of Riverside Drive near Griffith Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

About 7 a.m., police were called to a small homeless encampment after a person witnessed a stabbing, Los Angeles Police Det. Lewis Lenchuk said.

The witness awoke to the victim screaming, Lenchuk said.

Vandebrooke was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:22 a.m., according to coroner’s records.

Michael Ernest Chacon, a 65-year-old Latino, was arrested on suspicion of murder Dec. 19, according to L.A. County Sheriff’s Department online records.

What led to the stabbing is unknown, Lenchuk said.

Chacon was charged Dec. 21 with one count of murder with an allegation that he used a knife, Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, said in an email.

Before Chacon could …

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Ignacio Juarez, 58, died after his skull was fractured by blunt force trauma at 11:10 a.m. Thursday, June 21.

His body was found near the southbound I-5 freeway ramp on Riverside Drive as it runs south from Griffith Park to the east of Silver Lake, a section of roadway where homeless people camp in cars. Juarez was a member of a homeless encampment near the overpass.

According to LAPD Northeast Division Det. Harold DiCroce, Juarez had quarrelled with 38-year-old Oswaldo Mangas, a Latino man, and other men from the encampment. Juarez was struck in the face several times with some object. There was broken glass and wood from tree branches near his body.

Mangas was arrested that night. Several days later two other Latino male suspects were arrested and charged with murder. They are Rodrigo Ruiz, 42, and Fernando Tovar-Vasquez, 28. The argument took place in the context of drinking. …

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Iola Lynn Simms, a 40-year-old white female, died Saturday, June 25, after being stabbed near 2800 E. Observatory Road in Griffith Park, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Garene Ghazelian, a 13-year-old white female, died Thursday, Dec. 21, after being shot in Griffith Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Zabel Paloulian Ghazelian, a 40-year-old white female, died Thursday, Dec. 21, after being shot in Griffith Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.