Summer Early Evening: Not Yet 18, There's A Street Fight, He Allegedly Has A Gun, Shoots At Someone -- And Misses -- And Is Arrested

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(July 26, 2016) -- It was just after 7:00 p.m., still daylight on Monday July 25. LBPD officers were dispatched to the 2600 block of E. 56th Way (just southeast of South St./Paramount Blvd., 8th Council district), responding to a report of someone with a gun.

LBPD Watch Commander Lt. Erik Herzog tells LBREPORT.com that officers arrived to find a large fight in the street; they heard a single gunshot; they found a male juvenile with a gun who allegedly shot at someone; the round missed; the armed young person was arrested.

>LBPD is investigating what took place as possibly gang related.

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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.