Gunfire Flies For A Second Night In Central LB: 17 Yr Old Is Shot/Wounded Mon Nite (Aug. 24) Area Linden/Burnett AND An Hour Later, Gunfire at 16th/Pine (No One Hit), Two Blocks South Of Where Man Shot/Killed One Night Earlier

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Shootings come less than a week after Councilmembers held budget hearing on police budget; no Councilmembers make any motions, or indicate any willingnes to do so in coming weeks, to restore all of part of LBPD's former field anti-gang unit, or any of roughly 200 officers Mayor recommended/Council enacted budgets have erased since 2009

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(Aug. 25, 2015, 5:50 a.m.) -- A 17-year old male was shot last night (Aug. 24) in the Central LB area of Hill St./Burnett St. And LBREPORT.com has learned that about 60-90 minutes later, shots were fired -- but no person or property appears to have been hit -- in the area of 16th/Pine...roughly two blocks south of where a man was shot to death 24 hour earlier. (LBREPORT.com coverage of PCH/Pine homicide here.

LBPD Overnight Watch Commander Lt. Mark Coble tells LBREPORT.com that at about 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 24, LBPD received reports of shots fired; officers learned that a 17 year old male had been struck by gunfire and transported to a hospital by a private citizen. The victim was reported in critical condition at that time, his condition at daybreak today unknown...and the suspect(s) are currently outstanding.

Lt. Coble also confirms to LBREPORT.com that about an hour after the Burnett/Linden shooting, at roughly 10:30-11:00 p.m. LBPD received reports of shots fired in the area of 16th St./Pine Ave; officers found casings in the street...but found no victims or evidence of bullets hitting any person or property.

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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 shootings come less than a week after Councilmembers held budget hearing on police budget; no Councilmembers make any motions, or indicate any willingnes to do so in coming weeks, to restore all of part of LBPD's former field anti-gang unit, or any of roughly 200 officers Mayor recommended/Council enacted budgets have erased since 2009

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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