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.

Wenna Chen, a 54-year-old Asian female, died Sunday, Nov. 25, in Azusa, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. The cause of death is pending.

Kenneth Kitt, a 27-year-old Asian male, died Sunday, Nov. 18, in El Monte, 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 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.

Investigators believe Dola and Bui had ...

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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 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.

James Richard Kagaoan Rey, a 36-year-old Filipino man, died Tuesday, June 19, after he was stabbed inside a restaurant at 545 North Victory Blvd. in Burbank, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Rey, also known as James Rey Richard Kagaoan, walked into a crowded Burger King restaurant around 11 a.m. and began assaulting a 73-year-old man who was having coffee with two friends, said Sgt. Derek Green, Burbank Police spokesman. 

"Some witnesses said he [Rey] was yelling things, but nobody could understand what he was saying," Green said. "He immediately approached the victim and began stabbing him with a fixed-blade knife. It appears to be a completely random act."

That's when a bystander, identified only as an African American man, "basically engaged in a fight with the suspect, trying to disarm him of his knife," Green said. 

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Tauvaaga “Judy” Lauvai, a 53-year-old woman of Samoan descent, died Saturday, June 16, after she was shot in the 22700 block of Island Avenue in Carson, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. 

Lauvai, a native of Carson, lived in Tempe, Ariz., but she and her husband had returned to Carson to visit family over Father’s Day weekend, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Joe Mendoza.  

Her family had gathered on the front porch of her mother-in-law’s home shortly before 9 p.m. when a light-colored four-door sedan stopped in front of the house, Mendoza said. 

Someone inside the car began shooting toward the porch, and Lauvai was struck by the gunfire, he said. 

Investigators don’t have a motive for the shooting, “but we don’t believe she was the target. We believe this was just a random shooting,” Mendoza said ...

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