Adonis Anthony Kendall Harris was 22 years old when he died on Monday, June 13, 2005, in Hollywood. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 6353 Hollywood Blvd. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles Police Department Hollywood Division case.
The coroner's record describes him as a Black man in his early 20s. No news outlet appears to have reported on his death, and the Los Angeles Times entry gives only his name, age, the date and the address. One public trace of his life does survive. A Find a Grave memorial for Adonis Anthony Kendall Harris gives his dates as Sept. 4, 1982, to June 13, 2005, which matches both the date of death and the age in the coroner's record, and it lists his burial at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. The memorial appears in a user-made virtual cemetery titled "Friends," and flowers have been left on it there.
That suggests someone who knew him has kept his memory among the graves of people they lost, although the page does not say who made it or how they knew him.
No obituary, family fundraiser or other memorial could be found. Searches for the shorter name Adonis Harris turned up only other men, among them a witness in a later court case in Southern California and people named in obituaries in other states, and none of them is the young man who died in Hollywood.
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 address on Hollywood Boulevard sits in the busy commercial heart of Hollywood. This stretch of the boulevard, between Cahuenga Boulevard and Vine Street, is lined with the brass and terrazzo stars of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and it draws tourists by day and crowds to its bars, clubs and theaters at night. Storefronts, souvenir shops and older office buildings share the blocks, and the sidewalks are seldom empty. A stabbing at a street address in such a public place may have happened in front of people who were passing by, which suggests there could have been witnesses, though the record does not say so.
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 Adonis Anthony Kendall Harris could be found in news archives or public records. More than 20 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who was on Hollywood Boulevard near Cahuenga and Vine in mid-June 2005, who knew Adonis or the friends he spent time with, or who heard talk afterward about a young 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 (877-LAPD-24-7), or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).
