On Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, The Times launched a new version of the Homicide Report. You have arrived at the old blog.
Readers can no longer post new comments on this site, but we encourage you to join the conversation on our new site. The updated Homicide Report features an interactive map and searchable database of the more than 2,600 homicides in L.A. County since January 2007, when Times' reporter Jill Leovy first started this blog with the goal of covering each one.
Comments prior to Jan. 26 will, at least for now, remain archived here, with links provided in the new database.
If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail homicidereport@latimes.com, and we will do our best to respond.
-- Megan Garvey and Anthony Pesce
January 4, 2010 | 10:08
pm
Tyrone Green, a 68-year-old black man, was beaten and died Thursday, Dec. 24, in the 1200 block of South Atlantic Drive in Compton, authorities said.
Deputies found Green severely beaten and lying on the floor of his apartment after they received a call about a person not breathing, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department news release.
Green was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:36 p.m. No other information was immediately available.
-- Anthony Pesce
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Map: The location where Tyrone Green was beaten. Credit: Google Maps
