Lyova Heroyan, 35, a male, was found shot to death inside his Hollywood apartment building on North Cherokee Avenue late in the morning of September 13, 2025. County authorities later identified Lyova Heroyan, 35, as the victim, with the medical examiner listing the manner of death as homicide and the cause as multiple gunshot wounds.
According to information relayed by Los Angeles police to City News Service, a roommate discovered the body around 10 a.m.
in the 1200 block of North Cherokee Avenue, a corridor of older apartment houses just east of Highland Avenue. Reporting compiled from the scene indicates the violence likely occurred much earlier that morning, around 1:30 a.m., inside the building where Lyova Heroyan, 35, lived.
Records tracking local homicides and memorial pages created by community groups reinforce the official account: Lyova Heroyan, 35, died in Los Angeles on September 13, 2025, from gunfire, with the location and date matching police and medical examiner disclosures. These listings echo that the incident occurred in Hollywood and that Lyova Heroyan, 35, was the named decedent.
Authorities have not announced an arrest or publicly named any suspect in the killing of Lyova Heroyan, 35, and detectives have urged anyone with information to contact investigators. Early bulletins from the day after the discovery noted that suspect information was not available, and subsequent identifications by the medical examiner did not include news of a person in custody.
