On July 27, 2001, in the Manchester Square neighborhood of Los Angeles, 14-year-old Deseane Charyse Myles was found dead; Los Angeles County coroner records list the cause of death as strangulation. The coroner entry and contemporary records place the death at 1514 1/2 W. 80th Street and identify the victim as a Black female, age 14.
Deseane Charyse Myles is recorded in coroner files as a teenager whose death was investigated by the LAPD's 77th Street division. Publicly available archival records about the case are very brief and provide only the basic facts recorded by the coroner: name, age, date cause and location.
There is no further information in the coroner archive about arrests, charges, suspects, or case resolution. Based on the available record, the homicide remains listed only in the coroner's/homicide archive entry with no indication of a prosecution or closure in the source reviewed.
