(L.A.) Joshua Simmons, 38, Ended His Life

Case Number: 2024-17635

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 38-year-old Black male who was in custody of the Sheriff’s Department.

The coroner’s office identified the man as Joshua Simmons.

Manner of Death: Suicide

Cause of Death: Sequelae of Swallowing Foreign Objects

Other Significant Conditions: Sequelae of Morbid Obesity and Aspiration

RIP JOSHUA SIMMONS (September 23, 1986 – November 10, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Sunday at 10:53 p.m.

The decedent passed away in the Intensive Care Unit of the Los Angeles General Medical Center.

This is LASD’s 27th in-custody death this year.

Simmons was incarcerated on charges of killing two people — Anthony Soloc who was shot in the head in Inglewood in January 2023 and Javonnta Murphy whose body was discovered in a 55-gallon drum on a beach in Malibu in July 2023.