Amie Nicole Harwick, a 36-year-old white woman, died Feb. 15, a Saturday, after she was beaten in the 2000 block of Mound Street in the Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner’s records.

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department went to Harwick’s home at 1:16 a.m. in response to a report of a woman screaming. When police arrived, Harwick’s roommate told them Harwick was being assaulted inside the home. 

Police found Harwick on the ground, beneath a third-story balcony, with grave injuries consistent with a fall, police said. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died.

Coroner’s officials determined that Harwick died of blunt force trauma. Officers found possible evidence of a struggle in the home, according to a police statement. 

Harwick’s ex-boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, a 41-year-old white man, has been charged with special circumstances murder with the allegation of lying in wait, according to …

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Martin Mata Acosta, a 38-year-old Latino male, died Saturday, Jan. 12, after being shot in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Yuvini Cortez, a 37-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Monday, Feb. 12, in the 2000 block of Argyle Avenue in Hollywood, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Cortez was working about 2:30 p.m. as a maintenance worker at an apartment complex when he was shot, said Los Angeles Police Det. Sean Kinchla.

Cortez was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:44 p.m., according to coroner’s records.

The gunman was described as a Latino, about 30 years old, wearing a blue jacket and brown pants, according to police.

On Feb. 15, authorities arrested Gregory Baranovsky, a 39-year-old white man, on suspicion of murder, according to a news release from the LAPD.

Police think Baranovsky was committing a burglary when he shot and killed Cortez.

Baranovsky has been charged with one count of murder with the allegations that he shot a handgun and committed a murder during the commission of a burglary, …

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Armen Pogosyan, a 40-year-old white male, died Tuesday, Nov. 29, after being shot in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Richard Sa Dong Hong, a 41-year-old Asian male, died Friday, Sept. 23, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Asifawosem Getahun Alemseged, a 47-year-old black male, died Sunday, Aug. 14, in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Henry Xavier Estrada, a 27-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Sunday, Dec. 27, in the 6900 block of Camrose Drive, near North Sycamore Avenue in the Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Estrada and his girlfriend had gone to a rental “party house” on North Sycamore Avenue, when a man lured the couple outside via electronic communication, said LAPD Lt. John Radtke.

“They thought they were meeting someone else,” he said.

According to witnesses, the man confronted the couple when they walked outside, and then chased Estrada up Camrose Drive and shot him, Radtke said.

The man, later identified as Tien Phuong Hua, a 33-year-old Vietnamese man, then came back and tried to kidnap his former girlfriend, who police say was dating Estrada, pulling her into his car, investigators say. Hua became distracted, however, Radtke said, and the woman was able to escape before Hua drove east …

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Orlando Antonio Tobar, a 29-year-old Latino, was fatally stabbed Monday, Sept. 2, in the 2000 block of North Highland in Hollywood Hills, according to L.A. County coroner’s records.

At around 6:30 a.m., Tobar was arguing with a man in front of a hotel; the man pulled out a knife and stabbed Tobar, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.

The L.A. Fire Department took Tobar to a hospital, according to the release.

Tobar was pronounced dead at 10:36 a.m., said Ed Winter, a spokesman for the coroner’s office.

Police arrested a suspect, Julio Caesar Velasquez, 22, near the scene of the stabbing.

Velasquez is being held on $1-million bail, according to the LAPD.

Anyone with information can call West Bureau homicide detectives at (213) 382-9470. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

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Specimen No. 4, hands and feet, were discovered Wednesday, Jan. 18, in the 3200 block of Canyon Drive in the Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

The severed limbs were discovered a day after a head was found by passersby hiking in the area.

Two women were in the rugged Hollywood Hills when one of the dogs they were walking found a plastic bag in the brush containing a human head, according to law enforcement sources.

The next day, with the help of specially trained cadaver dogs, police found two hands and two feet. Authorities believe the victim was killed within a day or two of the discovery of the head.

Although authorities did not initially know whose body parts they were, they were able to identify the head as Hervey Medellin, a 66-year-old white man, several days later. He was a retired Mexicana Airlines employee. …

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Akop Akopyan, a 24-year-old man of Armenian descent, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds to the back and head at 6720 Mulholland Drive.

His time of death was listed as 5:54 a.m. Monday, March 12. The site is where Mulholland Drive curves up the hill from alongside the 101 Freeway in Cahuenga Pass.

Anyone with information is asked to call LAPD Hollywood Division detectives at (213) 972-2910.

Baby Girl Arriaga, a Latino female, died Thursday, Jan. 26, in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Maria Louisa Hamilton, a 82-year-old white female, died Sunday, May 8, in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Juan Carlos Martinez, a 24-year-old Latino male, died Sunday, Aug. 29, after being shot in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Mirtha Yolanda Garcia Lomeli, a 23-year-old Latino female, died Tuesday, March 11, after being shot in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Gita Kumar, a 42-year-old Asian female, died Saturday, May 4, in Hollywood Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.