UPDATE: Decedent Is Identified In 2 a.m. Shooting, 2800 block E. Third Street, Was Fatally Shot By Home's Resident As Alleged Residential Burglar
(Aug.10, 2014, 11:30 p.m.) -- The L.A. County Coroner's office identifies the person fatally shot last night in the 2800 block of E. 3rd St. as Ryan Mitchell Anderson, 29, of Long Beach. ..
(Aug. 10, 2014, updated 4:20 p.m. from initial predawn information) -- In the second such incident within the past three weeks, a Long Beach resident has shot and killed an alleged residential burglary suspect while or after [details/timeline not yet clear] the suspect was burglarizing the resident's home.
LBREPORT.com published initial LBPD information this morning; here's what we're told this afternoon.
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LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Megan Zabel says a male suspect -- who police say was an adult man (identification pending notification of next of kin) -- was shot and killed by a resident in the 2800 block of E. 3rd St. (east of Temple Ave., near Gladys Ave.). PIO/Sgt. Zabel tells LBREPORT.com that officers responded at about 2:24 a.m. regarding a burglary in progress in which the resident had shot the suspect. LBFD paramedics pronounced the suspect deceased at the scene.
PIO Sgt. Zabel says that once LBPD's investigation is complete, it will present its information to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office which will decide if charges will be filed [against the resident], if any.
There are no reports of residents being injured.
On July 22, an 80 year old homeowner in the Los Cerritos/Bixby Knolls area walked in while two suspects were allegedly burglarizing his home. The alleged burglars beat him, but the elderly man managed to retrieve a handgun and shot and killed one of the suspects (a woman) as she fled. The DA has charged the other burglary suspect, a man (who fled and LBPD subseqwuently arrested) with felony murder. residential robbery, residential burglary and other felonies. LBPD also arrested, and the DA has also charged, the male suspect's mother with burglary/robbery as an alleged accomplice/lookout in the crime.
Both of the residential burglaries in which the burglary victims armed themselves and shot those allegedly victimizing them took place in decidedly upscale parts of Long Beach. Multiple Long Beach neighborhoods, from working class to affluent sections of the city, have experienced increased residential burglaries over the past two years.
Some Long Beach city officials have attributed this in part to Sacramento's budget-driven realignment of state prisons system (saving state money by sending some "non-violent" convicts back to L.A. County where they're released early.) Others attribute it in part to Long Beach City Hall's own budget-driven reductions in LBPD staffing, a policy recommended by now former Mayor Foster and implemented by his now-former Council majority, that has left Long Beach with roughly 20% fewer citywide budgeted LBPD officers than in 2009.
