(Dec. 5, 2014) -- LBREPORT.com has learned of two shootings (confirmed by LBPD), one in the midnight hour today (Dec. 5) and one on the day before Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) at about dusk in which persons were struck by gunfire in the 1st Council district (area of 14th St/Cedar and 16th St./Pine.)
The Nov. 26 1st district shooting occurred within hours of a 4th Council district murder. LBREPORT.com has also heard third party reports, unconfirmed to date by LBPD which says it received no reporting phone calls, regarding November 28 gunfire at about dusk in Seaside Park (area 14th St./Chestnut-Magnolia Aves.) The two (and perhaps three) shootings are all in the 1st Council district...and just blocks from the "Mayor's build" house, a "Habitat for Humanity" project touted during the Foster administration. [Scroll down for further |
The two shootings that LBPD has confirmed (per PIOs Zabel and Arrona) are:
The November 26 shooting in the 1st district took place just hours before a murder on the the same day a few miles east...where a man (adult) was fatally shot just east of Cherry Ave. between PCH/Anaheim St. in the 4th Council district (LBREPORT.com coverage here.) LBREPORT.com is also hearing reports (from third parties) of gunfire in Seaside Park (area 14th/Cedar) in the 5 p.m. hour on Nov. 28 (the day after Thanksgiving. LBPD says it has no record of receiving any phone calls from the neighborhood reporting gunfire in the area on Nov. 28. (If you heard gunfire in that area at that time, LBPD says you can submit anonymous tips by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), texting TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or visiting www.lacrimestoppers.org.) 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. blog comments powered by Disqus Recommend LBREPORT.com to your Facebook friends:
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