Double-Shooting, Two Persons Hit 2200 block Lewis Ave.

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(Dec. 7, 2014) -- Gunfire flew and two persons were hit on Saturday night (Dec. 6) in the 2200 block of Lewis Ave. (between MLK and Orange, north of Hill St.)

It occurred just blocks from a double-shooting in January, 2014 (between MLK and Atlantic, north of Hill St.)

That was a few blocks from double shooting to the west in Sept. 2014 (between Pacific and LB Blvd. north of Hill St.)

And that was just blocks from a double shooting a bit further west between Pacific and Magnolia Ave.) in April 2014 in which one person was killed.

All of these were in the 6th Council district.

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Red Xs=2014 murders; Blue Xs=2014 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; Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings. Map accounts for shootings in area shown.

LBPD Public Information Officer Marlene Arrona tells LBREPORT.com that at about 10:55 p.m., officers were dispatched to calls of shots heard in the area of 2200 Lewis Ave...and arriving officers found two men (adults) with apparently gunshot injuries.

LBFD transported both victims to local hospitals with injuries that appeared to be non-life-threatening.

LBPD's investigation is ongoing. The shootings are currently viewed as possibly gang related. -investigation ongoing; possibly gang related

LBREPORT.com note and comment: On September 2 and 9, 2014 the City Council voted -- without dissent -- to approve a FY15 budget recommended by Mayor Garcia that ended funding for LBPD's former 22-member field anti-gang unit. Mayor Foster proposed the action in Aug. 2012 (FY13); at that time, the Council instead cut the field anti-gang unit in half in Sept. 2012, using "one time funding" to operate it at half-strength. In Sept. 2013 (FY14), the Council quietly let the field anti-gang unit shrink to single digits (taken from patrol) and in Sept. 2014 (FY15 budget), the Council voted to eliminate the field anti-gang unit entirely. An internal LBPD gang unit remains.