Johnny Floyd Garcia was 48 years old when he died on Sunday, February 12, 2006, in Pomona. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 825 E. Mission Blvd. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Pomona Police Department case.
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report described him as "a 48-year-old Latino male" who "died Sunday, Feb. 12, after being stabbed in Pomona." That entry, drawn from coroner's records, is nearly all that has been published about his death. The only other public trace found for this story is a single line on a community Facebook page that keeps a running list of homicides in Pomona from 2003 onward. It records him as "Johnny Floyd Garcia 48 02/12/06 825 E. Mission Blvd. Stabbed," which matches the coroner's information but adds nothing new.
Beyond his name, his age and the place where he died, almost nothing about Johnny Floyd Garcia 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.
Johnny Garcia is a very common name, and searches turn up many other men who share it, including retirees in Texas and Colorado and a man in New Mexico. None of them can be connected to this death. His middle name, Floyd, is less common and may be the detail that relatives or old friends would recognize first.
Pomona is one of the larger cities in eastern Los Angeles County, set in the Pomona Valley near the San Bernardino County line. It is home to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and to the Fairplex, the grounds where the Los Angeles County Fair is held each year. Mission Boulevard is one of the city's main east-west streets, a long corridor of shops, auto businesses, motels, apartment buildings and older homes. A street like that carries traffic and foot traffic at most hours, which means that someone may have seen or heard something on the day Johnny Garcia was hurt, even if they did not understand at the time what they had witnessed.
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 Johnny Floyd Garcia 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 was on or near Mission Boulevard in Pomona in February 2006, or who knew Johnny Garcia and spent time with him in the days before his death, 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 Pomona Police Department, or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).
