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(Aug. 24, 2015, 4:05 p.m.) -- A man was fatally shot on Sunday night Aug. 23 in the area of PCH/Pine Ave.

LBREPORT.com had initial information on our front page in the midnight hour, now updated with the press release text below:

[LBPD release text] On Sunday, August 23, 2015, at approximately 10:00 p.m., officers were dispatched to a shots fired call on Pacific Coast Highway near Pine Avenue, which resulted in the death of a male adult.

When officers arrived, they discovered a male adult subject down in the street who had been struck by gunfire. Officers immediately requested Long Beach Fire Department paramedics, and began performing life saving measures until their arrival. The victim was transported to a local hospital, and determined deceased shortly thereafter.

The preliminary investigation determined the victim arrived at a liquor store at that location where an altercation between two groups of males was already occurring. The victim had just gotten out of his vehicle when he was struck in the upper torso by gunfire.

The victim has been identified as 23-year-old Andra Berero of Long Beach. The incident is being investigated as possibly gang-related.

Anyone with information should contact LBPD Homicide Detectives Malcolm Evans and Mark Bigel Guarino at (562) 570-7244. Anonymous tips may be submitted by calling 1-800-222-tips (8477), texting TIPLA plus your tip to crimes or (274637), or by visiting www.lacrimestoppers.org.

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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.

The latest shooting comes less than a week after eight of LB's City Councilmembers (Councilwoman Price absent for a previously scheduled vacation) had a public hearing opportunity to voice their views and make motions to change aspects of the FY16 management/Mayor proposed budget for police. As currently proposed, the management/Mayor proposed budget won't restore all or any part of LBPD's field anti-gang unit and won't restore any of the roughly 200 officers available for citywide deployment previously provided to taxpayers as recently as 2009. At the August 18 budget hearing, no Councilmembers made motions, or indicated any willingness to make motions in the coming weeks, to restore funding for the field anti-gang unit.

LBPD's former field anti-gang unit previously deployed 20 officers + 2 sergeants in gang impacted neighborhoods, where officers could observe conditions firsthand, work contacts and gather intelligence. LBPD still has a budgeted anti-gang unit (handling investigations, filing cases and the like) but not an anti-gang unit operating in the field as previously.

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Mayor Garcia concluded the Aug. 18 police/fire budget hearing by stating his understanding that as of Aug. 18, there'd been no increase in the number of murders in Long Beach, about the same as last year, perhaps give or take one or two. Chief Luna said this was true. Mayor Garcia then said last year was a historic low. Chief Luna agreed that it was.

Mayor Garcia then stated:

Mayor Garcia: From a murder point of view, we're still kind of facing a historic low number" to which Chief Luna replied that most of the big cities across the country had experienced significant increases. Garcia then added that it's his understanding that the increase in murder rates had jumped dramatically in many cases in a lot of urban areas. Chief Luna said he thinks the average was about 19% across the country, especially on the east coast. Mayor Garcia then stated.

So I think as far as for Long Beach is concerned to see that level of consistency, while certainly no murders, we don't want any to happen obviously in our community, but to have that historic low I think stay the same is not just a testament to the work that the men and women of your department do, but also to the really continuum of public safety practice that we have. I think the work that's happening in the parks, in our schools, through our Health Dept., through our non-profits, it just goes to show even with all the additional pressures that you guys are just doing an incredible job...

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