Barret Adin Slome

Barret Adin Slome split his time between Los Angeles and Laguna Beach, pursuing a legal career while maintaining a connection to the coastal community where he lived part time. He practiced law in the Los Angeles area and is recorded by the State Bar of California as a licensee associated with Sherman Oaks. Neighbors and press accounts describe him as someone who kept a presence in Laguna Beach through his father’s condominium at the Laguna Lido complex.

Slome’s life included difficult chapters that were publicly known. In 2017 he survived a violent home invasion in the Beverly Glen area that left him wounded. That episode and its aftermath became part of the public record and led to disciplinary action related to an unlawful-possession matter; the State Bar shows his file and disciplinary history. Those events do not define the whole of his life, but they are part of the record of hardships he endured and the resilience he displayed afterward.

On July 28, 2020, Barret Slome died in Laguna Beach. Local reporting confirms he was 46 at the time of his death. While public accounts focus on the circumstances surrounding his passing, remembering Barret as a person means acknowledging the ordinary attachments that shaped his life: his profession as an attorney, his ties to Sherman Oaks and Laguna Beach, and the quietly lived days of someone who moved between city life and the coast.

Available public records and contemporary news coverage provide limited personal detail beyond his professional affiliation and the widely reported incidents of violence he experienced. Out of respect for privacy and the family, this remembrance emphasizes his human presence — a man who worked in the law, maintained family and community ties, and whose life mattered to those who knew him. If you have personal memories or family‑authorized tributes to share, they would help round out a fuller portrait of Barret as more than the headlines.