(L.A.) Seanna Widjaja, 30, Died Outside a 7-11
Case Number: 2022-00654
Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 30-year-old male that occurred in a hospital.
The coroner’s office has identified the man as Seanna Widjaja.
Manner of Death: Homicide
Cause of Death: Multiple Stab Wounds
RIP SEANNA WIDJAJA (May 25, 1991 – January 15, 2022)
Formal pronouncement of death was made on Saturday at 2:41 a.m.
His body was taken to LAC+USC Medical Center at 2051 Marengo Street, Los Angeles, 90033.
The decedent was Indonesian. He had a brown belt in jiu-jiutsu and was killed reportedly while trying to break up a fight.
The stabbing happened by a 7-Eleven in Koreatown and was in the news. Two people were charged.
Jose Orozco Garibay, 26, was charged with murder for stabbing Seanna Widjaja, 30, during the 2 a.m. Saturday fight at Sixth Street and Alexandra Avenue.
Josue Alegria, 26, was charged with assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and battery with great bodily injury for allegedly attacking another man who survived the altercation. Alegria was also charged with a single count of being accessory after to the fact for allegedly harboring Garibay after the fatal stabbing.
Police arrested a third man in connection with the fight, 26-year-old Damian Dehorney, but he was not immediately charged.
Widjaja was born in Surabaya East Java, Indonesia, to Jennifer Liem and Tedi Widjaja. He graduated from South High School in 2009 where he was the team Captain for the wrestling program. He received his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of California in Santa Barbara in 2014, and also received his PADI Open Water Diving Certification that same year. He became a licensed California State Deputy Building Inspector in Los Angeles in 2018.
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Widjaja was a day trader. He also surfed and was in the water almost every day. He primarily surfed locally in Manhattan Beach and Torrance Burnout. Seanna enjoyed playing guitar, and he also became a connoisseur of oysters and shellfish while working as the administrator for Blue Island Oyster Company – West Coast Operations and Naked Cowboy Enterprises.
Widjaja is survived by his mother Jennifer, his father Tedi, his brothers, Irwan and Lucky, his girlfriend Neysa Robinson, his stepmother Lily Wang and stepfather Todd Rubenstein, and several aunts, uncles and cousins.