David Lee Scarborough, a 34-year-old White/Caucasian man, died on May 15, 2026, after suffering a gunshot wound to the head at a residence in the Palmdale area of Los Angeles County’s Antelope Valley. Scarborough was born on April 16, 1992, in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County medical examiner case associated with his death was reported as case number 2026-07876, and subsequent reporting attributed to the coroner identified the manner of death as suicide and the cause as a gunshot
wound of the head.
The emergency unfolded on the evening of May 15 near 11th Street East and Palmdale Boulevard. At approximately 7:18 p.m., an emergency dispatch reported a person with a gunshot wound to the head and sent Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and fire personnel to the scene on an emergency response. An update from the incident stated that a weapon was on the ground and that CPR had been started. Despite the emergency medical response, Scarborough did not survive, and his death was formally pronounced that Friday.
One local account reported that shortly before the shooting Scarborough’s girlfriend had told him she was leaving him. That detail provides possible context for the events preceding his death, but the available online material does not provide a fuller independently corroborated account of the conversation, identify additional witnesses to it, or establish a more detailed sequence of events inside the residence. The medical examiner’s reported determination of suicide is significant because Los Angeles County defines that manner of death as an injury occurring with the intent to cause self-harm or one’s own death, rather than a death resulting from the volitional act of another person.
The available reporting therefore does not identify a homicide suspect, and there is no indication that anyone was arrested, charged, prosecuted, tried, or convicted in connection with Scarborough’s death. The scene information describing the firearm on the ground and the subsequent medical examiner determination point to a self-inflicted shooting rather than an attack by another person, so the case did not develop into a publicly reported search for a killer. Public memorial information confirms that Scarborough died on May 15 and that services were arranged for June 10 at Joshua Memorial Park Mortuary in Lancaster, where a visitation and committal service were scheduled.
