Sam Michel was in love with Los Angeles.
Born and raised on the East Coast, he felt he fit best on the West.
He lived for music, hunting down strange videos and tinkering with broken-down objects.
L.A., he thought, would let him grow as an artist, free to explore without stricture.
He came to CalArts to study photography, but he wasn't one to stay on the path.
For his senior project, which was photo-less, he improvised on a piano in a public gallery and built an art installation in which casts of his arms held a backyard hot tub in the air.
After graduation, he went home to South Salem, N.Y. But L.A. kept tugging.
So in the fall of 2011, Sam came back — still safely in that twilight of youth, before the full weight of the future presses in.
On South Serrano Avenue in Koreatown, in a 1920s Spanish-style building called the Sir Francis Drake, he found a studio apartment and a perfect small world.
Here were people who, like him, were game to wake up and hike Griffith Park, to bike the city late at night while others slept, and to search out the taco trucks he loved.
He grew so close to the two guys who lived in the apartment right above his that he set up a window-to-window tin-can telephone system.
Most evenings, he could be found on their rooftop patio, watching the sun sink over palm trees, a netted golf range, glass office towers.
Then a year ago, in the place he loved so much, Sam was stabbed to death.
Around 12:45 a.m. on April 10, 2012, he walked home alone from R Bar, about five blocks away. Around 2:30 a.m., neighbors heard scuffles and screams. When police arrived at his fifth-floor apartment, he was able to tell them to come in. Seconds later, he was dead.
He was 25 years old.
His killer has not been found.
The police say they have little to go on. There was no sign of forced entry. Nothing appears to have been stolen.
They've found no motive, no indication that anyone wished to do Sam harm.
Usually, said LAPD Det. Rolando Rodriguez, you hear that so-and-so was a nice guy, but.... With Sam, he said, he's heard no "buts" — from anyone.
Rodriguez hopes to locate one particular person who might know something — described by witnesses as a male, either white or Latino, who was seen in the area on a BMX bike.
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