Possible Drive-By Shooting, 700 block Elm Ave. (Two Vehicles Hit, No Victims Found); Suspect Vehicle Spotted 2400 block Anaheim St...With A Wounded Person Inside; LBPD Investigating As Possibly Gang-Related
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(Dec. 27, 2016, 10:15 p.m.) -- As flashed on LBREPORT.com's front page on the day after Christmas, gunfire flew at midafternoon in downtown LB's "East Village" as a possible drive-by shooting left two unoccupied cars damaged with no victims found...and a few hours later LBPD officers spotted a suspect vehicle -- with a man (adult) inside somehow wounded by gunfire -- halfway across town on Anaheim St. in LB's Zaferia district, where officers conducted a search for the vehicle's driver without success.
LBPD Watch Commander Lt. Kevin Coy provided us with updated information shortly before 10 p.m. following initial information from LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson, with the caveat that all the information below remains preliminary with the incident under investigation as possibly gang related.
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LBPD says that on Dec. 26 at about 3:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 700 block of Elm Ave. regarding a possible drive-by shooting; they found two unoccupied vehicles had been hit by gunfire...but found no victims.
Officers then spotted the suspect vehicle in the 2400 block of E. Anaheim St. (at roughly Junipero Ave.) and found two persons inside, one with a gunshot wound; LBFD transported the shooting victim to a hospital (condition stable) and officers searched the area for the vehicle's driver but didn't find him.
It's not immediately clear exactly how the wounded man in the suspect vehicle was shot. LBPD is treating the incident as possibly gang related.
2014 to date: Red Xs=homicides; Blue Xs= shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=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 Central LB.
Most of the shootings we reported below were either confirmed as or investgated as possibly gang related by LBPD.
Dec. 13: Man and woman (both adults) shot/wounded area Locust Ave./Del Amo Blvd. (north of the RR tracks, 8th Council district, LBREPORT.com coverage here.
Dec. 10: Man stabbed, teen taken into custody, Pacific/Hill (6th dist.), LBREPORT.com coverage here
Dec. 2, male juvenile (age 17) shot/wounded area MLK Ave./15th St. (eastern edge of Poly High, 6th Council district), LBREPORT.com coverage here.
Nov. 26: Man (adult) is shot, 1600 block W. PCH (1st Council district), coverage here.
Nov. 25: Man (adult) shot, 2200 block Santa Fe Ave. (7th Council district), coverage here.
Nov. 19, 1300 block Dawson Ave., man (adult) is shot (4th dist.), coverage here
Sept. 15: Man is Shot, 3400 block of E. 67th St. (9th dist.), coverage here.
Sept. 14: Man fatally shot, woman wounded, 5400 block Atlantic Ave. (8th dist.), coverage here
Sept 14: Shots fired, vehicle damaged, area 11th/Gaviota.(6th dist.)
September 12: Woman found deceased in residence, 6700 block Gardenia (9th dist.), coverage here
Sept. 11: Man Shot To Death, Locust Ave./12th St., (1st dist.) coverage here
Sept 5: Man Found Fatally Shot On Road Within Long Beach Port (2nd dist.), coverage here.
Sept. 1 and 2: Two Shootings In Two Days Hit Vehicles, Miss Persons: One in NLB, Another in Central LB, coverage here.
Tue. Aug. 30: Man (adult) is shot -- and killed -- in the area of Hile Ave. north of 16th St. The area is just west of Temple Ave., about three blocks north and a bit west of LB's iconic "Joe Jost's." (4th dist.) LBREPORT.com coverage here
Mon. Aug. 29, 15th St./Walnut Ave., 1:10 a.m., man shows up at hospital with a gunshot wound, says a man tried to rob him and then shot him; officers unable to find evidence of a shooting at that location (6th dist.) LBREPORT.com coverage here
Mon. Aug. 29, 1:45 a.m., man shot, area 15th St./Gundry Ave., possible drive-by shooting (6th dist.) LBREPORT.com coverage here
Sunday Aug. 28, 12:30 a.m., Anaheim St./Newport Ave.; shots fired at victims in a vehicle; vehicle is hit, occupants not hit (4th dist.)
Mon. Aug. 22: Man (adult) shot, area 11th St./MLK Ave. (6th dist.), coverage here.
Aug. 11: Man (adult) shot, 200 block of 69th Way (9th district), coverage here
Aug. 11: Juvenile shot, 11th St/MLK Ave. (6th dist.), coverage here
Aug. 6: Mother and daughter (age 4) are shot to death, 9th St./Locust Ave. (1st distict), coverage here
Aug 6: Group fight, two stabbed, one of whom dies, 2600 block E. Anaheim St. (6th dist.), coverage here
Aug. 5: Body of 19 yr old found at Willow St./San Gabriel River, a homicide (5th dist.), coverage here