Samuel Michel, 25
Samuel Michel, a 25-year-old white man, died Tuesday, April 10, in the 800 block of Serrano Street in Koreatown, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Police were called to the Villa Sir Francis Drake apartments about 2:40 a.m., where they found Michel with a knife in his back and stab wounds to his head.
Michel, who was neither conscious nor breathing, was inside a fifth-floor apartment.
A Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance crew pronounced him dead.
Witnesses reported seeing another man in a white tank top leaving the area on a bicycle.
Since Jan. 1, 2007, there have been 35 homicides in Koreatown, according to the Times' Homicide Report.
Anyone with information about the killing is asked to contact the Los Angeles Police Department at (877) 527-3247. Tipsters wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.
-- Thomas Curwen
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