(L.A.) Jose Avina, 34, Died on Train Tracks
Case Number: 2025-04480
Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 34-year-old Latino male that occurred on train tracks.
The coroner’s office identified the man as Jose Ignacio Avina, registered resident of Van Nuys.
Height: 5 feet 8 inches / Weight: 170 pounds
Manner of Death: Accident
Cause of Death: Blunt-Force Injuries
RIP JOSE IGNACIO AVIÑA (May 19, 1990 – March 10, 2025)
Formal pronouncement of death was made on Monday at 6:24 p.m.
The decedent was one of two individuals fatally hit by a Metrolink train in Lake Balboa. The other was a woman named Anna Jacobson. (Note that this incident was initially reported as involving two women, which turned out to be wrong.) The female victim was completely decapitated, the male has his head partially shorn off.
LAFD said the incident happened at a little before 6:15 p.m. in the 17000 block of Roscoe Boulevard.
as a teen
When he was just 14 years old, on three separate dates between October and November in 2004, Jose Ignacio Avina robbed and then orally and anally raped three boys between the ages of 12 and 14, taking them while they were walking home from school.
A fourth boy, who was targeted an hour after Jose Avina had performed his last rape, escaped from the knife-wielding teen before any sexual assault could take place.
During the trial, despite being visibly nervous, the three rape victims testified that Jose Avina had put a knife to their throats and raped them.
A medical specialist corroborated their stories, testifying that Jose Avina’s sperm was found in the victim’s rectums after the assaults were reported. It was also mentioned that there was blunt-force trauma evident inside the children, along with tears in skin of the affected areas.
Tried as an adult, Jose Ignacio Avina was found guilty in August 2007. The following year, he was sentenced as an adult to 64 years in prison.
Considered as a juvenile, however, he was expected to be free on his 25th birthday.
Jose Ignacio Avina made history as the youngest sex offender to be tried as an adult. They were sentenced to life in prison. They were found dead with Anna Jacobson in a Lake Balboa pedestrian train crash by an encampment Monday. They thought it was two women. What happened?! pic.twitter.com/0WqNjnPmIB
— EIE (@enuffisenuffla) March 12, 2025
#March 10, 2025 – #LosAngeles
Two pedestrians were struck and killed by a train in the Lake Balboa neighborhood #monday #Evening pic.twitter.com/zJCPjZURln— rabbitHoleMonkey (@dopeLordPharaoh) March 12, 2025
ocregister.com/2007/08/13/teenager-convicted-of-sexual-assaults/
ocweekly.com/kid-rapist-of-kids-jose-avina-catches-a-break-6428105/