(April 29, 2016, 1:55 p.m.) -- Wrigley area residents in the area of Willow St./Pacific Ave. (6th Council district) heard gunfire in the 10 p.m. hour on Thursday (April 28), followed by a large LBPD response extending into the after-midnight hours. LBPD overnight Watch Commander Lt. Greg Schirmer provided preliminary information indicating that at about 10:48 p.m., calls began coming in reporting gunfire possibly from a business in the 300 block of W. Willow St.; arriving officers didn't find any persons or property struck but did find a shell casing although unclear if related to April 28 shooting.
Within a few hours, a third-party webposted text stated: "I was in my apartment and heard gun shots, went out about five minutes later and 8 cop cars were at the bar on the corner and guns pointed as everyone was made to come out and crawl to the officers." At midday Friday (April 29), LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Bradley Johnson had further preliminary information, indicating that a calling party had said the shots came from a local business' parking lot and "upon arrival, officers attempted to detain subjects in the parking lot but they [allegedly] walked away and went into the business. Officers were diligent in their efforts and ended detained 17 people while they conducted their investigation. Evidence of a shooting was recovered. There were no injuries or suspects arrested [and] the investigation is ongoing." [Scroll down for further. |
The Wrigley area gunfire came less than four hours after a man was shot at early evening (April 28) in Central LB (Cambodian Town area Walnut/14th St., 6th district). On April 27, a man was shot in the noon hour in the 1600 block of Pine Ave., about nine hours after Willmore City residents heard shots in the 500 block of Maine Ave. (two blocks east of Chavez Park) and police found evidence of a shooting but no persons or property struck.
April shootings to date:
Mar. 31: 17 year old shot/killed, 1300 block E. 11th St. (6th dist. near border of 2nd dist.) Mar. 30: Man is shot/killed, 1600 block Pine Ave. (1st dist.) Mar. 21: Car to car shooting, 1400 block E. 14th St., no victims found (6th dist.) Mar. 19: Gunfire, area 10th/Olive, no person hit (border of the 1st/6th districts) Mar. 17: Man is shot, E. 10th St./Lime Ave. (borders 1st and 6th districts) Mar. 11: Man is shot, area 1st St. between Lime/Alamitos (border 2nd district) Mar. 6: Man is shot, area 19th/Cedar (6th dist.), found dead in vehicle 1700 block Pacific Ave. (1st dist.) Mar. 3: Two people shot, one of whom dies, area Artesia Blvd/Butler Ave. (9th dist.) Feb. 28: Man found shot to death, area 10th St./Norman Court(4th dist.) Feb. 27: Gunfire hits vehicle, area 11th/Ohio (4th dist.) Feb. 9: Man (adult) shot in midnight hour, 2200 block Spaulding St. (4th dist.) Feb. 8: 2600 block Adriatic Ave., man is shot (7th dist.) Feb. 6: 1900 block of W. Wardlow Rd., man is shot (7th dist.) Feb. 2: 2200 block Lime Ave., man is shot (6th dist.) Jan. 24: 1900 block Pasadena Ave., unoccupied vehicle struck by gunfire (6th dist.) Jan. 24: 800 block Walnut Ave.: two vehicles damaged by gunfire (2nd dist.) Jan. 17: 1300 block Walnut Ave. (three vehicles damaged by gunfire (3:30 a.m.) (6th dist.), Jan. 10: 3200 block E. Artesia Blvd. (9th dist.): Man (adult) was found shot multiple times Jan. 9: Chestnut/17th St.: Evidence of gunfire, no persons/property struck (1st dist.) Jan. 1: 1300 block MLK Ave. (6th Council district); no persons hit
On Sept 15 and 22, 2015 the Council voted (without dissent) to adopt a FY16 budget, recommended by Mayor Robert Garcia, that failed to restore LBPD's former field anti-gang unit. It leaves LB taxpayers with a budgeted police level for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what L.A. would have if L.A.'s Mayor and Council cut roughly 30% of LAPD's officers. In August 2012, Mayor Foster first recommended the budgeted elimination of LBPD's field anti-gang unit. The Council balked, funded the unit at half strength for a year, but in subsequent years quietly let it disappear. Then-Vice Mayor Garcia (chosen by Foster to chair the Council's Public Safety Committee in mid-2010) held no hearings on Foster's proposal or any public safety impacts of Foster's budget recommendations. Councilwoman Suzie Price, whom Mayor Garcia named to chair the Public Safety Committee in 2014, has followed that practice regarding Garcia's budget recommendations. blog comments powered by Disqus Recommend LBREPORT.com to your Facebook friends:
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