Racyncia Lynette Nelson, 43, was found dead on October 5, 2011, in the 8700 block of South La Salle Avenue in the Gramercy Park area of Los Angeles. Authorities were called to the scene on the morning of Oct. 5 and pronounced her dead about 7:40 a.m. Coroner's records list the cause of death as asphyxia by another person; the coroner's spokesman additionally reported blunt head trauma at the time she was found.
Nelson was a 43-year-old Black woman. The Los Angeles Times record of coroner and police information identifies the investigation as falling under the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Division, but the initial public report provided no further background about her life, family or work. Officials provided no additional details about circumstances leading to her death in the published coroner summary.
The case remains unresolved in the public record: no arrest, charge or closure was reported in the available coroner/police summary. The original notice asked anyone with information to contact the Los Angeles Police Department at LAPD-24-7 or, to remain anonymous, to call Crime Stoppers at 222-TIPS.
