While Mayor Delivers "State of the City" Message Downtown, There's Double Shooting in NLB: Woman Dies, Man Critically Wounded, 6300 Knight Ave. (Near Ramona Park)
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(January 11, 2017, 4:45 p.m.) -- While Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia was delivering his "State of the City" message downtown describing the "city of the future," a North Long Beach neighborhood was experiencing Long Beach of the present with a double-shooting that left a woman dead and a man wounded.
LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson tells LBREPORT.com that on Jan. 10 at roughly 7:25 p.m., officers responded to the 6300 block of Knight Ave. (south of Ramona Park) regarding two adults who'd been shot. LBFD pronounced one of the victims, a woman, dead at the scene; it transported the other victim, a man, to a hospital, and he was last reported in critical condition.
LBPD says individuals at the scene detained a male suspect (adult) and LBPD took him into custody.
PIO Johnson says LBPD does NOT believe what took place was gang related. The relationship between the victims and suspect is still to be determined and LBPD's investigation is ongoing.
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. 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.
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