Man (Adult) Is Shot While Riding His Bicycle, Area 10th/Walnut, After Carload Of Individuals Try And Fail To Steal His Bike; He's Wounded But Rides Home And His Family Takes Him To Hospital
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(June 20, 2015) -- Long Beach's Second Council district had its second shooting in the Walnut Ave. area in less than two weeks.
LBPD overnight Watch Commander Lt. David Faris tells LBREPORT.com that a man (adult) riding his bicycle at about 3:00 a.m. was approached by a carload of individuals who attempted to rob him of his bike.
When the victim attempted to flee, someone opened fire on him, striking him once in the lower torso. Despite his injury, the victim managed to ride home...and his family transported him to a hospital.
LBPD is investigating what took place as possibly gang related.
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Red Xs=2014 and 2015 murders to date; 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. A separate map (not shown here) indicates add'l shootings in NLB.
A little less than two weeks ago, on June 7th, a man (adult) was shot in the 1600 block of E. 6th St. (near Walnut Ave.)
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In other shootings in the vicinity:
April 6: Two men (adults) are shot in the 800 block of Gaviota Ave. (one block east of Walnut Ave.); LBPD has arrested two suspects in connection with the double-shooting.
March 31, 2015: A man is shot at midafternoon in the area of 7th St./Alamitos Ave. near the Museum of Latin American Art.
Sept. 21, 2014: A "no hit" shooting occurs overnight in the 1200 block of E. 4th St. (northern edge of Alamitos Beach neighborhood) near Orange Ave.
July 16, 2014: Gunfire hits an occupied (inhabited) residence and an unoccupied vehicle in the 8 a.m. hour in the 700 block of Gaviota Ave.
June 11, 2014: Man is stabbed in the area of 8th St./Gardenia Ave.
May 30, 2014: Shots fired in the 700 block of Rose Ave. at an parked, unoccupied vehicle.
Mar 24, 2014: A store clerk is shot in the 7th St. mini-mart he owns (between Orange and Cerritos Aves.) He dies of his wounds in May, 2015.
At the time LBREPORT.com reported the shootings above, LBPD indicated that most were being investigated as possibly gang related.
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In Sept. 2014, a Council majority approved without dissent, a FY15 (current) budget (recommended by both current Mayor Garcia and exiting Mayor Foster) that no longer funds LBPD's now-former field anti-gang unit. The field anti-gang unit previously deployed twenty officers plus two sergeants in gang impacted areas where they could interact with residents and gather intelligence. LBPD continues to maintain a conventional gang unit (often working indoors on investigations and the like) but L.A. County's second largest city no longer has the field anti-gang unit that LB taxpayers had until September 2012.
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In August 2012, then-Mayor Bob Foster recommended a FY13 budget that proposed to eliminate the field anti-gang unit, and then-Vice Mayor Robert Garcia, chosen by Foster to chair the Council's Public Safety Committee, held no hearings on the public safety aspects of the Foster proposed budget. However the Council balked and voted to fund half of the field anti-gang unit using "one time" funds for a year.
A year later in September 2013, again with no hearings by Garcia's Public Safety Committee on the proposed budget, the Council failed to budget additional sums for the field anti-gang unit, which LBPD scrambled to maintain at a further reduced level by drawing officers from patrol and backfilling with overtime.
In July 2014, exiting Mayor Foster and entering Mayor Garcia both recommended a FY15 budget without funding for the field anti-gang unit. The Council's Public Safety Committee, now headed by Councilwoman Suzie Price (chosen by as chair by Garcia and endorsed for office by Foster) held no hearings on public safety aspects of the Garcia-Foster proposed FY15 budget (saying such an action would be "unprecedented.") In September 2014, the Council voted without dissent to adopt a FY15 budget that provided no funding for LBPD's field anti-gang unit.
LB's 2nd Council district is represented by Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal, who took office in June 2006.
