Man Is Shot, Area 10th St./Raymond Ave. (East of Cherry b/w 7th St-Anaheim St.), Taken To Hospital In Critical Condition</small>

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Man Is Shot, Area 10th St./Raymond Ave. (East of Cherry b/w 7th St-Anaheim St.), Taken To Hospital In Critical Condition
Shooting in western part of 4th Council district comes roughly two hours after Mayor Garcia's State of the City message

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(Jan. 17, 2015 update) -- LBREPORT.com is saddened to report that the shooting reported below has become a murder, with the death of its victim, identified by LBPD as Jose De Jesus Cabral Orozco, 22, of Long Beach. In a Jan. 17 release, LBPD says the motive for this shooting is unclear; no suspect is in custody at this time...and the investigation remains ongoing. Further at this link.

(Jan. 14, 2015) -- A man in his 20's was shot on Tuesday night (Jan. 13) in the area of 10th St./Raymond Ave...and transported to a hospital in critical conditon.

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In preliminary information, LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt tells LBREPORT.com that at about 9 p.m. on Jan. 13, LBPD responded to a shots fired call in the 2300 block of E. 10th St. [area Raymond Ave., 4th Council district]

PIO Pratt says officers learned that a subject walked up to a group gathered in the yard of a residence, opened fire and struck a man in his 20s, who was transported to a hospital in critical condition.

There's no suspect information available for now. LBPD asks anyone with information to contact LBPD Homicide Detectives Hugo Cortes and Oscar Valenzuela at (562) 570-7244

The shooting took place four blocks south of a double-shooting two days earlier (14th/Raymond Jan. 11.) That shooting came less than 90 minutes before a double shooting two miles west in the 900 block of Daisy Ave. (about half a mile north of LB's new courthouse.)

Less than 90 days earlier (November 26, 2014, the night before Thanksgiving) a man was shot to death in the area of 15th St./Sherman Place (about a block north and a block west of Jan. 13, 2015 shooting.)

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Red Xs=2014 murders; Blue Xs=2014 and 2015 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; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings. Map is unofficial for shootings in area shown.

The Jan. 13 shooting came roughly two hours after Mayor Robert Garcia finished delivering his first State of the City message during which he said "violent crime had dropped to its lowest level in more than 40 years" and "progress in public safety can be seen in every neighborhood." The Mayor acknowledged that Central LB had lagged in economic growth "especially neighborhoods west of Cherry between Anaheim and PCH to the west city limits where he said the poverty and unemployments rates exceed that of the rest of the city "and the crime rate continues to be a major challenge" which he called "unacceptable."

Garcia said residents of that area "need access to healthcare, education and good jobs" and said the City had applied for federal "Promize Zone" designation" (that he said could send federal dollars "to improve economic activity, expand educational opportunities and reduce violent crime.")

Since Sept. 2009, City Council majorities (which included Garcia) under former Mayor Bob Foster cut LBPD's budgets to the point where LB taxpayers now have roughly 20% fewer budgeted police officers available for citywide deployment than five years ago. In July 2014, Mayor Garcia recommended, and a new Council majority approved without dissent, a FY15 budget that eliminated LBPD's field anti-gang unit (an action first recommended by former Mayor Foster in FY13 but initially resisted by former Councils.)