(L.A.) Jaren Liljenquist, 26, Died at a Motel

Case Number: 2024-17675

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 26-year-old White/Caucasian male that occurred at a motel.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Jaren Liljenquist.

STATUS: The decedent’s body has been released. Ruling by the deputy medical examiner is deferred pending additional investigation.

Manner and cause of death will be added to this page when it becomes available.

If the DME has ordered toxicological screening, the next public update may take three to five months.

RIP JAREN KESLER LILJENQUIST (August 3, 1998 – November 12, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Tuesday at 6:16 a.m.

The decedent was an admitted drug addict. His older brother Ryan Paul died on April 3, 2021.

In 2019, Jaren Kesler Liljenquist was arrested in Utah for having unprotected sex with a 14-year-girl and her two underage friends. After his arrest, he admitted to being positive for Hepatitis C, of having sex three times with the girl knowing she was only 14, and that on several occasions, he had given that girl meth, which she indeed tested positive for. He was charged with four third-degree felony counts of unlawful sexual activity of a minor, one count second-degree felony drug distribution, two counts third-degree felony drug possession and exposing a child to a controlled substance and misdemeanor charges of drug possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Before that, Lilenquist had already been convicted of assault by a prisoner, drug possession, threat / use of a dangerous weapon in a fight, and domestic violence assault.