(L.A.) Armond Yaghoobian, 72, Died at a Residence

Case Number: 2025-02906

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 72-year-old male that occurred at his residence.

The coroner’s office identified the man as Armond Yaghoobian and listed his race/ethnicity as Middle Eastern or North African [sic].

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Effects of Cocaine, Ethanol, and Fentanyl

RIP ARMOND YAGHOOBIAN (August 9, 1952 – February 12, 2025)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Wednesday at 8:35 p.m.

Ruling by the deputy medical examiner was published on April 28, presumably after the results of tox screening had come back from the lab. This is considered an accidental, i.e., unintentional, polysubstance overdose.

The government investigator Amy Lizarraga had initially misspelled the decedent’s surname as Yaghoobina. It is possibly of Iranian / Persian origin.

She had also originally given the decedent’s race/ethnicity as Asian before later changing it to MENA.

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