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L.A. County Coroner Opens Inquest into Police Killing of Andrés Guardado

HeadlineNov 12, 2020

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has announced it will open an official probe into the death of Andrés Guardado, an 18-year-old Salvadoran American who was shot and killed in June by a sheriff’s deputy. This marks the first such investigation by the coroner’s office in more than three decades. An independent autopsy found Guardado was shot five times in the back.

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