(L.A.) Dustin De Los Santos, 39, Died at a Residence

Case Number: 2026-07807

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 39-year-old male that occurred at his residence.

The coroner’s office identified the man as Dustin De Los Santos and listed his race/ethnicity as Latino [sic].

STATUS: The decedent’s body has been released. Ruling by the deputy medical examiner is deferred pending additional investigation.

Manner and cause of death will be added to this page when it becomes available.

If the DME has ordered drug screening, the next public update may take five to eight months.

RIP DUSTIN ANGELO DELOSSANTOS (February 23, 1987 – May 14, 2026)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Thursday.

The decedent was actually of Filipino descent.

To make corrections to the public record, the family should tell the funeral home to call the govenrment investigator in charge of this case. It was Edna Morales who decided to group the decedent with the Hispanic cohort.

Conflating two distinct demographic categories flouts OMB requirements and skews everything from civil rights monitoring to resource allocation.