Angelina Maria Lujan was 57 years old when she died on Sunday, May 9, 2021. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died of stab wounds. Her death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a case of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, assigned to its South Los Angeles Station.
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report recorded her death with even less detail than usual. It described her as "a 57-year-old white female" who "died Sunday, May 9, after being stabbed." Unlike most entries, it gave no street address and no neighborhood, so the public record does not show where she was attacked or where she died. The date itself stands out: May 9, 2021, was Mother's Day. That fixes the day in a way people who knew her might remember.
Beyond her name, her age and the place where she died, almost nothing about Angelina Maria Lujan 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. She surely had family, friends or neighbors who remember who she was, but none of that has entered the public record. Angelina Lujan is not a rare name, and searches turn up other women who share it, including a municipal employee in Argentina, women memorialized in obituaries in New Mexico and Hawaii, and a woman whose family raised funeral money in Colorado in 2023. None of them can be connected to this death.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say whether she was stabbed during a fight or a robbery, attacked by a stranger or by someone she knew, or hurt indoors or on the street. It does not say what time of day she was hurt, whether she died at the scene or later at a hospital, whether anyone saw what happened, or whether investigators ever identified a suspect.
Because no address was released, even the community where she died is uncertain. The Sheriff's Department's South Los Angeles Station patrols unincorporated neighborhoods in the southern part of the county, areas that lie outside any city and depend on the county for policing. These are mostly residential communities of modest single-family homes and apartment buildings, crossed by busy commercial corridors and surrounded by the city of Los Angeles and smaller cities. The station assignment suggests, but does not prove, that she was hurt somewhere in that area.
Hundreds of people are killed in Los Angeles County every year, and a large share of those killings end without an arrest.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Angelina Maria Lujan 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 a 57-year-old woman named Angelina Maria Lujan, or who heard about a woman being stabbed in the unincorporated communities of South Los Angeles around Mother's Day in May 2021, may hold information that could help. 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.
