Elie Wadid Aziz Naguib was 59 years old when he died on Friday, February 23, 2018, in Bellflower. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 10116 Rosecrans Ave. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department case, handled through the department's Lakewood Station.
The coroner's records describe him as a white man in his late 50s.
Beyond his name, his age and the place where he died, almost nothing about Elie Wadid Aziz Naguib has been made public. No obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser could be found for this story, and no news outlet appears to have reported on the death. He surely had family, friends or neighbors who remember who he was, but none of that has entered the public record. His full name is an unusual one, and no other public record of him could be found. The few search results that share parts of his name concern other people.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say whether he was beaten in a fight, attacked by a stranger, assaulted indoors or on the street, or struck by a vehicle, all of which can lead to a finding of blunt force trauma. It does not say what time of day he was hurt, whether he died at the scene or later at a hospital, whether anyone saw what happened, or whether investigators ever identified a suspect.
The address on Rosecrans Avenue is a street address on a major road, which suggests that he may have been hurt at or near a home, an apartment building or a business, but the records do not say which, or whether he lived there.
Bellflower is a city of about 75,000 people in the southeastern part of Los Angeles County, between Downey, Lakewood, Paramount and Norwalk. Much of it is made up of modest single-family homes and apartment buildings. Rosecrans Avenue is one of the long east-west roads that cross the southern part of the county, carrying steady traffic past homes, strip malls and gas stations. Bellflower does not have its own police department. It contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and its patrols are run out of the Lakewood Station, while homicides are investigated by the department's Homicide Bureau.
Hundreds of people are killed in Los Angeles County every year, and a large share of those killings end without an arrest. The death of a 59-year-old man on a busy street in Bellflower does not appear to have been reported by any news outlet.
Someone who knew him may have seen him in the days before his death, noticed a dispute, or heard something afterward that did not seem important at the time.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Elie Wadid Aziz Naguib could be found in news archives or public records. More than seven years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew him, or who was near the 10100 block of Rosecrans Avenue in Bellflower in late February 2018, may hold information that could help detectives. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a vehicle seen nearby or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500, or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS.
