Sena Khim, a 37-year-old Asian woman, was found dead Tuesday, May 7, in the 600 block of East 10th Street in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s records.

Officers from the Long Beach Police Department responded to a call of “unknown trouble” about 7:30 a.m. and found Khim with blunt force trauma to the upper body, according to a news release from the department.

Khim was pronounced dead at 7:49 a.m. at the scene, according to coroner’s records.

Investigators determined that Khim was physically assaulted by her boyfriend, identified by police as Soeun Sam, a 59-year-old Asian man, police said.

Sam was arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene.

Sam has been charged with one count of murder with the allegation that he used a wooden bar as a deadly and dangerous weapon, according to the Los Angeles County district ...

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Chyong Jen Tsai, a 76-year-old Asian woman, was pronounced dead on Tuesday, April 9, after she was found unconscious in the 300 block of of East Forest Avenue in Arcadia, according to Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner records. 

Arcadia police went to Tsai's home after receiving a call about a person down, and found her lying in her backyard not breathing, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department news release. 

Tsai and her husband, who was traveling out of country,  are building a granny flat on their property, the Pasadena Star-Times reported. It was one of the construction workers who found her lying in her backyard, not breathing, shortly before 7 a.m.

She was pronounced dead at the scene at 7 a.m., but investigators say it's not clear how she died, The Times reported. 

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Vu Thanh Nguyen, a 48-year-old Asian male, died Tuesday, March 12, after being shot in Rosemead, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Landis Chase Lim, a 17-year-old Asian boy, was fatally shot on Thursday, Feb. 28, in the 1000 block of East 11th Street in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner records. 

Landis was in a garage facing an alley behind East 11th Street around 5:15 p.m. when a light-colored four-door sedan drove into the alley, heading east, and someone inside began shooting into the garage, according to a news release from the Long Beach Police Department. 

The gunfire struck Landis and a 34-year-old woman who was also in the garage, according to the news release. 

When officers arrived, they found Landis in the alley with a gunshot wound in his upper torso. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:35 p.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound ...

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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.

Yining Xie, a 58-year-old man of Chinese descent, was fatally shot on Friday, Nov. 16, at the China Press, 2121 West Mission Road in Alhambra, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

The Alhambra Police received a call around 9:38 a.m. that Xie, chairman and founder of the daily China Press or Qiao Bao (Overseas Chinese Press) newspaper in Alhambra, had been shot in his office.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:40 a.m., according to coroner’s records. The cause of death was listed as gunshot wounds to the head and torso.

Investigators believe the shooting was motivated by a workplace dispute between Xie and one of the paper's employees, Zhong Qi Chen, 59, a Chinese national who lives in El Monte, said Sgt. Steve Carr.

Chen was arrested at the office on suspicion of murder the day of the ...

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Yang Guo, a 55-year-old Asian male, died Wednesday, Nov. 14, after being shot in Rosemead, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Rotha Chan So, a 34-year-old Asian male, died Tuesday, Oct. 23, after being shot in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Henry Hamada, a 91-year-old Asian male, died Saturday, Oct. 20, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Gardena, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Fely Banaban Ramirez, a 66-year-old Asian female, died Friday, Oct. 5, after being shot in Carson, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

 Mimi Dola, a 29-year-old Asian woman, was pronounced dead on Tuesday, Oct. 2, after she was stabbed and strangled in the 20700 block of Anza Avenue in Torrance, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. 

Family members from the East Coast called the Torrance  Police Department asking officers to check on Dola's welfare, said Sgt. Ronald Harris. 

When officers arrived at her apartment, they found Dola and her male roommate, Tuan Kim Bui, a 46-year-old Asian, unresponsive inside the apartment, Harris said. 

The two were pronounced dead at 1:33 p.m., according to coroner's records. Bui's death was ruled a suicide by a single gunshot to the head, according to coroner's records. 

Dola's death was ruled a homicide, caused by stab wounds to the chest and manual strangulation, according to coroner's records.

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Stephen Tran, a 45-year-old Asian male, died Sunday, Sept. 16, after being stabbed in El Monte, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Jerry Chan, a 42-year-old Asian male, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, after being stabbed in Pasadena, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Cherry Chilei Liu, a 50-year-old Asian woman, was fatally shot on Wednesday, Aug. 1, in the 800 block of Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

Liu had left her apartment about 8 a.m. and was walking downstairs to her car when her estranged husband began shooting at her from a hiding place, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Derrick Alfred. 

“It looks like he had been lying in wait for her in the laundry room below her apartment,” Alfred said. “As she walked by, it looks like he opened fire on her and then followed her out to the driveway where he fired several more rounds, striking her. And then he fired a single round into his own head.”

Liu was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:58 a.m., according to coroner’s records. The cause of ...

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Susan Liu, a 45-year-old Asian female, died Tuesday, July 31, in El Monte, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.