Nick Andrew Fuentes Jr. was 31 years old when he died on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in North Hills, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 9229 Aqueduct Ave. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles Police Department Valley Bureau Homicide case.
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report recorded him as a Latino man who "died Wednesday, June 6, after being stabbed in North Hills." The entry gives no further details. Beyond his name, his age and the place where he died, almost nothing about Nick Andrew Fuentes Jr. 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.
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.
His name also makes him unusually hard to find online. Searches for "Nick Fuentes" are dominated by a nationally known political livestreamer of the same name, whose legal troubles and public controversies fill page after page of results, along with obituaries for older men named Nick Fuentes in Texas and elsewhere. None of those people has any connection to the 31-year-old who died in North Hills. The suffix "Jr." in his name suggests that he shared it with his father, which may mean that relatives who knew him by that name are still living in the area.
North Hills sits in the central part of the San Fernando Valley, within the city of Los Angeles. For decades the area was known as Sepulveda, and in the early 1990s it took the name North Hills. It is a busy, densely populated neighborhood of apartment buildings, older single-family homes, small shopping centers and auto shops, crossed by major Valley boulevards. Many working families live there, and streets lined with apartment complexes give much of the neighborhood a crowded, close-knit feel, where neighbors often see one another coming and going. Aqueduct Avenue is one of its residential streets.
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 Nick Andrew Fuentes Jr. 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 lived on or near Aqueduct Avenue in North Hills in early June 2018, who knew Nick Fuentes Jr. or his family, or who heard later talk about what happened to him, 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.
