(L.A.) Grace Edwards, 19, Died in a Hospital

Case Number: 2025-17392

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 19-year-old White/Caucasian female that occurred at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center.

The coroner’s office identified the young woman as Grace Edwards.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Sequelae of Multiple Blunt-Force Traumatic Injuries

RIP GRACE EDWARDS ( November 5, 2025)

Formal pronouncement of brain death was made on Wednesday.

The decedent was a nursing student who was hit by a vehicle in Long Beach on November 2 at around 3:55 p.m.

She was walking in the Trader Joe’s parking lot with her mother when the distracted driver of the vehicle pulled out of a parking space.

The driver, a 39-year-old in a 2015 Lexus IS250, remained on scene and cooperated with police investigators.

Reference Location:
Stearns Street & North Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach, California 90815

Map views only approximate location and do not indicate the precise spot where the incident happened.

GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/honoring-grace-edwards-help-her-family-heal

The decedent’s body was actually alive until November 9 when her organs were harvested by the medical-industrial complex.

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