Alejandro Corona was 28 years old when he died on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002, in Pico-Union, just west of downtown Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 1502 W. Washington Blvd. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles Police Department Rampart Division case.
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report recorded his death in a single sentence drawn from coroner's records. It described him as "a 28-year-old Latino male" who "died Sunday, Feb. 24, after being stabbed in Pico-Union." No follow-up story about his death appears to have been published, and the entry did not say whether the address on Washington Boulevard was his home, a business or simply the place where he was found.
Beyond his name, his age and the place where he died, almost nothing about Alejandro Corona 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. Alejandro Corona is a common name in Southern California, Mexico and Central America, and searches for it turn up only unrelated men, among them a county clerk, a man who died in police custody in Houston in 2026 and defendants in Arizona and Iowa. None of them can be connected to the man who died in Pico-Union in 2002.
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.
At 28 he was a young man with most of his life still ahead of him. Nothing in the record says whether he had a wife or children, what kind of work he did, how long he had lived in Los Angeles, or whether relatives in the city or elsewhere were ever told how he died.
Pico-Union is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Since the 1980s it has been a center of the Central American community in Los Angeles. Washington Boulevard is a busy commercial corridor of small shops, auto businesses and apartment buildings.
Homicides in Los Angeles rose sharply in the early 2000s, climbing past 600 in 2002, and detectives carried heavy caseloads. Many killings from those years were never solved.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Alejandro Corona 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 lived or worked near the 1500 block of West Washington Boulevard in late February 2002, or who knew a 28-year-old man named Alejandro Corona in Pico-Union, 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).
