(Dec. 31, 2006) -- The L.A. County Coroner's office says a 34 year old woman, whose body was found in a NLB alley on December 26, was a homicide victim who died of multiple gunshot wounds.

And LBPD says a deceased man found on a central LB street, who appeared to have sustained a gunshot wound, has been turned over to the Coroner to determine his official cause of death.

On December 30 at about 5:30 a.m. LBPD officers found a Hispanic man lying on the sidewalk in the 1400 block of Gundry Ave, with at least one gunshot wound; LBPD determined he was deceased; the Coroner identifies him as Cristian Antonio Smith, a transient, and as of Dec. 31 had not yet examined him.

On December 26, LBPD responded after a worker found the body of an African-American in an alley behind the 6700 block of Delta Ave. (NW corner of LB). The Coroner's office calls her death a homicide and identifies the victim as Sherrelle Muhammad, 34...and says she succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds. Further details are unavailable as we post.

Anyone with information about these deaths is asked to call LBPD at (562) 570-7244.