On October 26, 2006, Joshua Uchul Shinn, a 32-year-old Asian male, died in Cerritos, California; Los Angeles County coroner records list his cause of death as strangulation. According to published homicide records, his death occurred at a residence on Rose Street in Cerritos.
Shinn was 32 at the time of his death. Public records about his life, family, or occupation are limited in the sources available; reporting and coroner records focus on the circumstances of the death and the subsequent investigation rather than biographical detail. Law enforcement treated the incident as a homicide and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau handled the case.
The LASD issued an information-wanted/reward bulletin in January 2007 seeking assistance in the murders of Joshua Shinn and another victim, Matthew Morrison, naming contacts in the Homicide Bureau and offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction. The bulletin lists LASD Homicide contact numbers for Sergeant S. Rubino and Detective R. Green and the bureau's general tip line.
The killing of Joshua Uchul Shinn remains unsolved in the public record: there are no open-source reports of an arrest, charge, or conviction tied to his death. Anyone with information was asked to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau; the LASD bulletin provides phone contacts for Sergeant S. Rubino and Detective R. Green and the bureau tip line.
