Man Is Shot, Area 20th/Myrtle Ave.

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Man Is Shot, Area 20th/Myrtle

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(Dec. 30, 2014) -- A man (adult) has been shot in the Central Long Beach area of 20th St./Myrtle Ave.

LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Megan Zabel says the shooting occurred on Dec. 29 at about 11:34 p.m. LBPD searched for suspects and closed the intersection for its investigation.

Sgt. Zabel indicated in a dawn-hour dispatch that the victim was in critical condition.

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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 is unofficial for shootings in area shown.

LBPD is investigating the shooting as 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.]