L.A. inquest into a fatal police shooting of 18-year-old backs earlier conclusion that it was homicide Following the first inquest in Los Angeles in more than 30 years, the Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office on Friday released its findings, which supported its earlier conclusion that the death of Andres Guardado — shot five times in the back by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in June — was a homicide. In a four-page document, retired Justice Candace Cooper said that “the medical cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds” and “the manner of death was by the hands of another person other than by accident.”