(L.A.) Adam Youines, 35, Died in a Vehicle

Case Number: 2022-07913

Los Angeles County has announced the death of a 35-year-old Middle Eastern male that occurred in a vehicle.

The coroner’s office identified the man as Adam Youines.

Manner of Death: Homicide

Cause of Death: Gunshot Wounds

RIP ADAM YOUINES (July 24, 1987 – July 30, 2022)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Saturday at 3:14 a.m.

The decedent was reportedly a transient from the Montebello area. He was shot and killed by Pasadena police after he drove at them in an allegedly stolen vehicle in the parking lot of a strip mall on Orange Grove Boulevard, near the intersection with North Lake Avenue at about 2:25 a.m.

Video showed the carjacking suspect holding a gun to his head.

For eight minutes, officers asked the suspect to put down his weapon and surrender peacefully.

The suspect continued to jerk the car forward, and later called the Pasadena Police Department and told a dispatcher he wanted to kill himself and repeatedly asked to be shot.

“Adam are you still there? How can we help you?” the dispatcher asked. The dispatcher later attempted to contact the suspect’s mother.

“I’m done,” he said. “Done. Shoot me, shoot me, shoot me,” he said.

Youines lurched forward in a battered white minivan towards officers, who instantly returned fire.