(L.A.) Elias Tapia, 25, Died in an Electrical Room

Case Number: 2024-13468

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 25-year-old Latino male whose body was found inside an electrical room.

The coroner’s office identified the young man as Elias Tapia.

Height: 5 feet 11 inches / Weight: 200 pounds

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Multiple Drug Toxicity

RIP ELIAS EDDIE TAPIA (August 3, 1999 – August 25, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Sunday at 3:15 a.m.

The decedent had a criminal history. He was just arrested on July 14 for being an addict in possession of firearm. He was violating his probation.

Ruling by the deputy medical examiner was published on October 22, presumably after the results of tox screening had come back positive from the lab. This is considered an accidental, i.e., unintentional, polydrug overdose.

The government investigator had initially noted the decedent’s place of death as a utility shed, before later changing it to electrical room.

Note that there are multiple decedents named “Elias Tapia” in public records.