Dimas Diaz Jr., a 43-year-old Latino male, died Saturday, Jan. 12, in Calabasas, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Rony Josue Parras Mendez, a 18-year-old Latino male, died Monday, Dec. 31, after being shot in Valley Glen, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Kaybeen Razana, a 26-year-old white male, died Thursday, Dec. 28, after being shot in South Gate, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Jose Lemus, a 57-year-old Latino male, died Friday, Dec. 21, after being shot in Azusa, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Christopher Deandre Mitchell, a 23-year-old black male, died Friday, Dec. 7, after being shot in Torrance, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Martin Lopez, a 24-year-old Latino male, died Wednesday, Nov. 21, after being shot in Bell Gardens, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Albert Ramon Dorsey, a 30-year-old black male, died Monday, Oct. 29, after being shot in Hollywood, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Ivan Pena, a 42-year-old Latino male, died Monday, Sept. 24, after being shot in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Fernando Cruz, a 18-year-old Latino male, died Saturday, Sept. 22, after being shot in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Rene Herrera, a 39-year-old Latino male, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, after being shot in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

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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Richard Mendoza, a 32-year-old Latino male, died Thursday, Aug. 23, after being shot in North Hills, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Michael Gregory Harrison, a 30-year-old white male, died Saturday, Aug. 18, after being shot in Culver City, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

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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Daniel Anthony Valdez, a 70-year-old Latino male, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, after being shot in Central-Alameda, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.