Fadi Raymond Jabbour was 27 years old when he died on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001, in Azusa, in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds at 808 E. Alosta Ave. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as an Azusa Police Department case.
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report recorded his death in a single sentence drawn from coroner's records. It described him as "a 27-year-old white male" who "died Tuesday, Oct. 23, after being stabbed in Azusa." The entry gave a street address on Alosta Avenue, but it did not say whether that address was a home, a business or the place where he was found. No follow-up story about his death appears to have been published.
Beyond his name, his age and the place where he died, almost nothing about Fadi Raymond Jabbour 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 turn up other men named Fadi Jabbour, among them a father of young children who is active on social media and a man listed as a surviving son in a 2016 obituary in Allentown, Pennsylvania. None of them can be connected to the man who died in Azusa in 2001.
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.
Azusa is a city of tens of thousands of residents at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, where the San Gabriel River comes out of its canyon and into the valley. It began as a farming town surrounded by citrus groves and later grew into a suburb of houses, apartment complexes and small businesses. Alosta Avenue is one of the main east-west roads through the city and carries part of the old Route 66 corridor, lined with shopping centers, motels, restaurants and apartment buildings. Azusa Pacific University also sits along the avenue on the city's east side, and traffic on the road is steady day and night.
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 Fadi Raymond Jabbour could be found in news archives or public records. More than 24 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who was on or near East Alosta Avenue in Azusa in late October 2001, or who knew a 27-year-old man named Fadi Jabbour in the San Gabriel Valley at that time, 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 contact the Azusa Police Department, or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).
