Gunfire Flies, Hits Occupied WLB Residence -- With No Known Gang Affiliation -- 1800 block Canal St.

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Gunfire Hits Window Of Occupied WLB Residence -- With No Known Gang Affiliation --1800 block Canal St.

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(April 26, 2015) -- Gunfire was reported, and rounds hit an occupied residence -- with no known gang affiliation -- just north of PCH, east of Santa Fe Ave. on Saturday night (April 25.)

LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Megan Zabel tells LBREPORT.com that at about 9:23 p.m., officers responded to the 1800 block of Canal Street regarding a shots fired call. When officers arrived they discovered a window to a residence on that block had been struck by gunfire.

PIO Zabel says no injuries were reported, no suspects are in custody...and the residence that was struck has no known gang affiliation.

LBPD's investigation is ongoing.

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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. A separate map (not shown here) indicates add'l shootings in NLB.

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As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, on August 23, 2014 a man (adult) arrived at a nearby hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound and told officers that he was standing next to his vehicle parked in the 1600 block of W. PCH, just east of Santa Fe, when he was hit.