(L.A.) Azuka Amucha, 52, Died From Overdosing on Coke

Case Number: 2024-14648

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 52-year-old Black male that occurred at a private residence.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Azuka Amucha.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Cocaine Effects

RIP AZUKA AMUCHA (January 16, 1972 – September 15, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Sunday at 2:39 a.m.

Ruling by the deputy medical examiner was published on October 23, presumably after the results of tox screening had come back from the lab.

The decedent was an attorney who was disbarred from the practice of law. He had been ineligible to practice law in California since 2014 when it was revealed he had misappropriated a client’s settlement fund. Amucha had passed the bar in 2004. He was of Nigerian descent.