Two More Shootings Shake Wrigley/East Wrigley-Central LB; Since Jan. 25 6th District Shootings Per Capita Parallel Chicago Citywide
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(Feb. 26, 2017, 8:13 p.m.) -- Long Beach had two shootings within the past four days -- one in Wrigley, one at the eastern Wrigley border with Central Long Beach (details below). Since Jan. 25, the City's 6th Council district has had five shootings -- two of which were fatal -- amounting to roughly the same number of shootings per capita during this period as the City of Chicago.
LBREPORT.com noted this disturbing development 10 days ago. As we reported on Feb. 16, within a period of a little under three weeks (Jan. 25-Feb. 12), parts of Long Beach's neighboring 1st and 6th Council districts had shootings roughly equivalent per capita to Chicago citywide. We also noted that this has happened before. In October 2015, within a roughly 30 day period (Sept. 19-Oct. 16), LB's 1st and 6th districts combined had more shootings per capita than Chicago.
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The most recent shooting occurred on Saturday Feb. 25 in the midnight hour in the 2300 block of Pacific Ave. LBPD Public Information Officer Marlene Arrona tells LBREPORT.com that at about 12:45 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 2300 block of Pacific Ave., found a man (adult) with multiple gunshot wounds; LBPD transported him to a hospital with injuries that appeared to be non-life threatening. The suspects are believed to be two male Hispanics who fled the scene before officers arrived. LBPD says a motice for the shooting has yet to be determined and its investigation is ongoing.
Three days earlier and a few blocks eastward on Feb. 22 at about 9:55 p.m., officers responded to the area of LB Blvd/21st St. regarding a shots call, found a man (adult) struck by gunfire; he was transported to a hospital with an injury believed to be non-life-threatening. A male suspect was observed running from the scene and LBPD is investigating this shooting 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 NLB.
As previously reported by LBREPORT.com:
On Feb. 12, a man was fatally shot in the 1100 block of E. 10th St. (6th dist-1st dist border, see note below.) LBREPORT.com coverage here.
On Feb. 2, a man was shot in the 1000 block Lewis Ave. LBREPORT.com coverage here.
On Jan.25, a man was fatally shot in the 1300 block Wesley Dr (north of LBCC PCH campus). LBREPORT.com coverage here.
Our calculation uses unofficial figures from Chicago. The Chicago Tribune provides a running total of shootings at this link. There were 264 shootings between Jan 25 and Feb. 25 and Chicago's population is roughly/rounded 2.7 million. Dividing 264 shootings by 2700 (number of 1,000-residents) produces a per capita ratio of 264/2700 = 0.0977 shootings per thousand residents of Chicago.
LB's 6th district has a population of roughly 50,000 residents and during this period had five shootings. 5/50 = 0.10 (roughly the same as Chicago.)
As indicated above, one of the five shootings was on the border of the 1st/6th districts but allocated to the 6th district because the shooting victim -- who didn't survive -- was on the north side of 10th St. We didn't include another 6th district fatal shooting a little over a week outside our time frame on Jan. 17 (600 block E. Burnett St. (6th dist., coverage here.
Councilman Andrews won the 6th district Council office in May 2007 in a narrow victory over Al Austin (now LB's 8th district Councilman, elected in 2012, re-elected 2016 without a runoff on 2016.) In April 2016, Councilman Andrews won re-election with a write-in campaign under LB's term-limits bypass procedure in which he finished first head of three ballot-listed candidates. His campaign had backing from much of LB's establishment including organized labor, corporate interests, the LB Police Officers Ass'n PAC, and LB's predominantly Democrat Party-aligned officeholders, including Mayor Robert Garcia.
During his time in office, Councilman Andrews (along with then-Councilman Garcia) voted for budgets since FY10 eliminated over 20% of LB's previously budgeted police officers. The results left taxpayers in Long Beach (L.A. County's second largest city) with a thin police level available for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what the City of Los Angeles would have if it erased roughly 30% of LAPD's officers.
Following June 2016 voter approval of a LB City Hall-sought sales tax increase (Measure A), the City Council has thus far restored 17 out of 208 police officers Long Beach previously had.
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Feb. 12: Man is found fatally shot, 1000 block E. 10th St. (6th dist, north side of street), coverage here.
Feb. 5: Man (adult) is shot, 1200 block Stanley Ave. (south of Anaheim St. and east of Junipero Ave., western part of 4th Council district), coverage here.
Feb. 2: Man (adult is shot, 1000 block Lewis Ave. (6th dist. bordering 1st dist.), coverage here.
Jan. 30: Gunfire, 4600 Banner Drive (area of traffic-roundabout San Antonio Dr./Orange Ave., border of 7th and 8th Council districts, coverage here.
Jan 28: Teenage boy fatally shot, 900 block Maine Ave. (1st dist, coverage here.)
Jan.25: Man shot to death, 1300 block Wesley Dr (north of LBCC PCH campus, 6th Council district), coverage here.
Jan. 17, 2017: Man fatally shot, 600 block E. Burnett St. (6th dist.), coverage here.
Jan. 10, 2017: 6300 block Knight Ave. (9th dist., south of Ramona Park): two adults shot (woman dies, man is wounded), coverage .here.
Dec. 26: 700 block of Elm Ave., two unoccupied vehicles hit LBREPORT.com coverage here
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.
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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
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
Aug. 29, 1:45 a.m., man shot, area 15th St./Gundry Ave., possible drive-by shooting (6th dist.) LBREPORT.com coverage here
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.)
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
