Three Residences, Multiple Vehicles Struck By Gunfire In NLB Mobile Home Park; No Injuries Reported
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(April 28, 2015) -- LBREPORT.com has learned that three residences and several vehicles were struck by gunfire last night (April 27) in a North Long Beach mobile home park across Atlantic Ave. from Jordan High School (9th Council district.)
LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Megan Zabel says that on April 27 at about 7:38 p.m., officers responded to the 300 block of Hula Hula Lane (SW quadrant Atlantic/Artesia mobile home park) regarding shots fired...and found three residence and several vehicles had been struck by gunfire.
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PIO Zabel says no injuries were reported; gang detectives responded to the scene; no suspects are in custody as of dawn April 28 and LBPD's investigation remains ongoing.
Note: LBREPORT.coj doesn't have sufficient details in this initial report to know how many residences/vehicles were struck; we label them on the map below as "2X+"; we are also unclear as to whether the shots were fired at occupied or unoccupied residences/vehicles and indicate them on the map below as occupied residences until we hear otherwise.
Red Xs=2014 and 2015 murders to date; Blue Xs=2014 and 2015 shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs=shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings. Map is unofficial for shootings in area shown.
LBREPORT.com's unofficial map cumulates shootings over time (Jan. 1, 2014 to date) for context. The map doesn't show all of LB's shootngs, most of which during this period have been in part of Central LB/NE of downtown and a relatively small area of WLB. For a map showing those Central LB/WLB areas, see recent coverage at this link.
The NLB gunfire comes less than 72 hours after shots were fired in the 8th Council district shortly before midnight Friday (April 24) in the neighborhood between Del Amo Blvd. and Market St. and east of Long Beach Blvd. (100 block Platt St.) in which a man was killed and several rounds were fired at a group of people (in a "walk up" shooting) It was the second murder in April in North Long Beach (the first was in another neighborhood on the border of 8th/9th Council districts) when (April 4) a man was fatally shot in the 2700 block of E, South St. (vicinity of Paramount Blvd.)
On April 9, there was gunfire and a man was struck/wounded less than a mile south of last night's crime scene in the 6000 block of Linden Ave., one block west Atlantic Ave. and a couple of blocks NW of the new North Long Beach Uptown Renaissance Library project.
LBREPORT.com notes that a citywide "Ciclovia" (closing streets for bicycle riders) is planned along Atlantic Ave. from Bixby Knolls/Cal Hits. (Wardlow Rd.) to NLB's Houghton Park on June 6.
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In Sept. 2014, a Council majority approved without dissent, a FY15 (current) budget (recommended by both current Mayor Garcia and former Mayor Foster) that fails to fund LBPD's now-former field anti-gang unit. The field anti-gang unit previously deployed twenty officers officers plus two sergeants in gang impacted areas where they could interact with residents and gather intelligence. LBPD continues to maintain a conventional gang unit (often working indoors on investigations and the like) but L.A. County's second largest city no longer has the field anti-gang unit that LB taxpayers had until September 2012.
