Bradley Meas, a 32-year-old Asian man, was fatally shot Dec. 29  in the 2300 block of East 124th Street in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner records. 

Meas was standing on the sidewalk with four other people in front of an apartment complex around 5:30 p.m. when two adult males walked up to the group, according to a Long Beach Police Department news release. One of the newcomers yelled at the group and "subsequently  opened fire," striking Meas and another adult male. 

The suspects fled from the scene on foot before officers arrived, according to the release.

Meas and the other gunshot victim were taken to a nearby hospital where Meas was pronounced dead at 5:34 p.m., according to coroner's records. 

The second victim was treated for his wounds and released, according to the news release. 

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 Jue Wang, a 37-year-old Asian man, was fatally shot on Saturday, Dec. 14, in the 900 block of West Ramona Road in Alhambra, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.  

Alhambra police officers were called to the scene shortly after 8 p.m. regarding a suspicious vehicle, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Brandon Dean. The car was parked in a residential neighborhood that runs parallel to the 10 Freeway, just east of the South Atlantic Boulevard exit. 

When officers arrived, they found Wang sitting in the driver's seat of the car with a gunshot wound in the upper torso, Dean said. 

Wang was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:01 p.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound. 

Investigators don't know why Wang was in the neighborhood. He lived in Palmdale ...

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Editha Cruz de Leon, a 76-year-old Filipino woman, was found dead Sunday, Dec. 8, in the 3900 block of Van Horne Avenue in El Sereno, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Shortly before noon, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollenbeck Division received a radio call for a death investigation in the area.

Officers discovered Cruz de Leon, and paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene at 11:52 a.m., according to coroner’s records.

Coroner’s records show that Cruz de Leon, a retired gynecologist, had been stabbed and strangled, then discovered by a relative.

Prosecutors said in a news release that Cruz de Leon was killed the previous day.

A team of authorities from the LAPD and the FBI arrested Timothy Chavira on Dec. 18 at a Pasadena home, police said.

Chavira, a 56-year-old Latino, has been charged with one count of murder ...

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Dai Phuoc Nguyen, a 38-year-old man of Vietnamese descent, was fatally shot by police officers on Monday, Dec. 2, in the 9800 block of Cortada Street in El Monte, according to Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner records.  

El Monte police officers went to Nguyen's home about 12:30 p.m. after dispatchers received a 911 hang-up call, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Scott Hoglund. 

"There was a lot of screaming on the other end and nobody answering questions, so the officers responded," he said. 

When the officers arrived, they parked just west of the house on Cortada Street, Hoglund said. As they got out of their cars, Nguyen allegedly charged from the driveway of his home toward them with a "bladed weapon" in his hand. Officers "described it as a very large wood-handled kitchen knife," Hoglund said, "almost like a machete." 

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Daniel Raveen Lal, a 42-year-old Asian male, died Saturday, Sept. 14, after sustaining blunt force trauma near 4051 Jackson Ave. in Culver City, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

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Steven Mon Eng, a 65-year-old Asian male, died Thursday, June 6, after being stabbed in Claremont, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

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Nuntapat Kumdee, a 32-year-old Asian male, died Tuesday, June 4, in Westchester, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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