Laquenia Lenise Glynn

Laquenia Lenise Glynn was 26 years old when she died on Monday, October 21, 2002, in Pomona. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died of stab wounds at 915 N. Holt. Her death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Pomona Police Department case.

The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report recorded her death in a single sentence drawn from coroner's records. It described her as "a 26-year-old black female" who "died Monday, Oct. 21, after being stabbed." The entry labeled the location as Pico-Robertson, a Los Angeles neighborhood many miles away, but the case belongs to the Pomona Police Department, and her memorial records place her death in Pomona, which suggests the neighborhood label was a mapping error. The entry did not say whether she lived at the address, was visiting or was simply found there. No news story about her death appears to have been published.

Her name, spelled LaQuenia on her memorial page, survives mainly in family records. A Find a Grave memorial gives her birth date as December 12, 1975, in Pomona, and her death as October 21, 2002, in Pomona, at age 26. That means she was born and died in the same city. A separate memorial for Renita Coleman, who lived from 1959 to 2021, says Renita "had one child, a daughter named LaQuenia Lenise Glynn," with James Glynn, who died in 2020. Both of her parents have since died. No obituary, family fundraiser or news coverage of her life could be found, and nothing public says what work she did, whether she had children of her own or what she hoped for.

Because so little was released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say whether she was stabbed during an argument 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.

Pomona is one of the larger cities in eastern Los Angeles County, in the Pomona Valley near the San Bernardino County line. It is home to the Los Angeles County Fairplex, which hosts the county fair, and to Cal Poly Pomona. Holt Avenue, historically part of a main route across the valley, runs east and west through the city and is lined with businesses, motels and apartment buildings. The city has its own police department, which investigates homicides within its limits.

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 Laquenia Lenise Glynn could be found in news archives or public records. More than 23 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew LaQuenia Glynn growing up in Pomona, or who was near North Holt in Pomona in October 2002, 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).