(April 12, 2016, 8:45 a.m.) -- Long Beach had two midnight hour shootings on Monday April 11 -- one WLB in the 1900 block of W. Willow St (7th dist.) at about 12:45 a.m. in which a building was damaged at about 12:45 a.m. followed by a second shooting about ten minutes later north of downtown LB in the 200 block of W. 12th St. (1st dist.) in which a male victim suffered a They are the fifth and sixth shootings (one with no persons hit) within five days: two in WLB (7th dist.); one north of downtown LB (1st dist.) and three in parts of NLB (portions of the 8th and 9th dists). [Scroll down for further below.] |
April 10: Man (adult) shot, 3300 block Caspian Ave. (7th dist.)
The April 9 midafternoon shooting in the 8th Council district -- just days before election day and a few blocks from the newly named Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library in 9th dist. -- has not been widely reported.
Other shootings since Jan. 1, 2016 are listed below.
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.
In other area shootings:
April 10: Man (adult) shot, 3300 block Caspian Ave. (7th dist.)
April 9: Man (adult) shot, Linden/Norton (8th dist.) (approx. three blocks from newly named Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library in 9th dist.)
April 9: Man (adult) shot, Coolidge Triangle area, 200 block E. Barclay (9th dist.)
Apr. 7: Man (adult) shot/wounded area Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave. (9th dist.)
Apr. 2: Late afternoon gunfire South St./Linden Ave., no persons/property (border 8th/9th Council districts)
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. 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
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