Four Shot -- Two Men & A Woman (Adults) Plus A 17 Yr Old Male -- 10th St. @ Gaviota Ave.

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(Aug. 11, 2015) -- Four people -- two men and a woman (adults) plus a 17 yr old male -- were shot overnight along 10th St. at roughly Gaviota Ave.

LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt tells LBREPORT.com that last night (Aug. 10) at about 10:25 p.m. last night, officers responded to the 1600 block of E 10th street regarding a shooting. Four victims -- a woman (age 20), two men (25 and 31) and a male juvenile (age 17), and all them LB residents, were struck by gunfire.

The four victims were transported to local hospital, reported (as of midmorning Aug. 11) in stable condition.

Gang detectives responded to the scene and LBPD is investigating the shooting as possibly gang related.

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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.

LBPD asks anyone with information about last night's shooting to contact its Gang Investigations Section at (562) 570-7370.

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As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, city management's proposed FY16 budget, and recommendations by Mayor Robert Garcia, proposes that the Council continue to no longer fund LBPD's former field anti-gang unit (20 officers + 2 sergeant.) Under Mayor Foster, his former Council majority first cut funding for the field anti-gang unit roughtly in half, then let its funding disappear, and in September 2014, the current Council under Mayor Garcia voted 9-0 for a FY15 budget without funding for the former field anti-gang unit.

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