(L.A.) Benedict Ihesiaba Jr., 32, Ended His Life

Case Number: 2024-20232

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 32-year-old Black male.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Benedict Ihesiaba Jr.

Manner of Death: Suicide

Cause of Death: Gunshot Wound of the Head

RIP BENEDICT CHIAJULAM IHESIABA JR. (April 23, 1992 – December 26, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Thursday at 9:05 a.m.

Note that the government investigator had initially misspelled the decedent’s surname as Ihesiba.

The decedent’s surname is Nigerian. He was an Atlanta-based known as OG Maco.

Ihesiaba was seriously injured in a traffic collision in 2016, suffering multiple skull fractures, cracked vertebrae, a broken orbital, and heart palpitations, and nearly lost his right eye.

In 2019, he was diagnosed with the flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis, causing his face to be disfigured. Ihesiba struggled with depression from his battle with the condition, and on December 12, 2024, he was hospitalized after a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He spent the next two weeks in a coma before dying from his injuries on December 26, 2024.