Barry Reginald Allie was 52 years old when he died on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds. The record gives no address for where he was hurt. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a case of the Los Angeles Police Department's Devonshire Division.
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report recorded his death in a single sentence drawn from coroner's records. It described him as "a 52-year-old white male" who "died Saturday, Oct. 28, after being stabbed." Unlike almost every other entry in the database, his gave no street address and no neighborhood. The record does not explain why. Sometimes an address is left out when a person is hurt in one place and dies in another, or when the location was not known when the record was made, but nothing in his entry says which, if either, applied.
Beyond his name, his age and the place where he died, almost nothing about Barry Reginald Allie 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. Searches for his name are made harder by the fact that Barry and Allie are both common first names, and many online obituaries list couples called "Barry (Allie)," none of whom have anything to do with this death.
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.
The only clue to where he died is the agency. The case was assigned to Devonshire Division, which patrols the northwestern corner of the San Fernando Valley, an area that includes communities such as Chatsworth, Northridge, Granada Hills and Porter Ranch. That suggests he was hurt somewhere in that part of the city, though the record does not say where.
That part of the Valley is mostly suburban, with tract homes, shopping centers, apartment complexes and, at its western and northern edges, the hills and open land that separate Los Angeles from Ventura County. It is home to California State University, Northridge, and it was near the center of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Los Angeles still recorded roughly 480 to 520 homicides a year in the mid-2000s, and many of those killings were never solved.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Barry Reginald Allie could be found in news archives or public records. More than 19 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew a 52-year-old man named Barry Allie who lived or spent time in the northwest San Fernando Valley in October 2006 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 call the Los Angeles Police Department at 877-527-3247 (877-LAPD-24-7), or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).
