Jorge Isidro Beliz was 33 years old when he died on Sunday, July 25, 2021, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds near 8701 S. St. Andrews Place. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles Police Department case handled by detectives of the department's South Bureau Homicide unit.
Beyond his name, his age and the place where he died, almost nothing about Jorge Isidro Beliz 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. The coroner's record describes him as a Latino man, and the Los Angeles Times entry says only that he died "after being stabbed near 8701 S. St.
Andrews Place in Gramercy Park."
Beliz is an uncommon surname, and a search for his full name turns up no matching records at all. The few people named Jorge Beliz who appear in public records lived decades earlier and are clearly different men. The rarity of the name means that anyone who knew him would likely recognize it at once, and that even a single memory shared by a relative, coworker or friend could add a great deal to what is known.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say whether he was stabbed during a fight or a robbery, attacked by a stranger or by someone he knew, or hurt indoors or on the street. 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.
Gramercy Park is a small residential neighborhood in South Los Angeles, not far from the city of Inglewood. Its streets are lined mostly with single-family houses, many of them modest homes built in the first half of the twentieth century, with churches and small businesses along nearby commercial corridors such as Western Avenue. St. Andrews Place is a residential north-south street running through the neighborhood.
That same Sunday, July 25, 2021, another young man, Trayvon Marquise Jackson, was also stabbed to death a few miles away in the Vermont Knolls neighborhood. Nothing in the public record says whether the two deaths were connected, and they may well be unrelated.
Los Angeles recorded about 260 homicides a year in 2018 and 2019, among the lowest yearly totals in more than half a century, yet many of those killings still went unsolved.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Jorge Isidro Beliz could be found in news archives or public records. More than four years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew him, who lived on or near the 8700 block of South St. Andrews Place in July 2021, or who heard talk afterward about a man stabbed there, 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 call the Los Angeles Police Department at 877-527-3247 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS.
