It's the fifth shooting (including two homicides) in Central LB (6th + 1st dists.) this month alone.

Initial information is limited. LBPD Watch Commander Lt. Gerardo Prieto tells LBREPORT.com that at about 9:50 p.m. police were dispatched to a shooting that had just occurred and found a man (adult) had succumbed to his wounds. Homicide investigators worked through the night (and were on scene past daybreak) investigating what took place.

As previously reported by LBREPORT.com:

• On June 23, two men were shot/wounded on Saturday June 23 about two blocks north of PCH and roughly a block north of LBCC's Central LB campus near LB's Renaissance High School for the Arts.

• On June 19, a homeless man [apparently lived in an encampment a block south of PCH, one block west of Magnolia Ave.] was shot and killed (1st dist.)

• On June 5 ("election day"), a man was shot/wounded in the 2200 block of Earl Ave. (6th dist.)

• Also on June 5, a man was shot/wounded in the 500 block E. Esther St. (just south of PCH, 1st dist.)

Across the L.A. River in WLB, on June 21, a man was shot while inside a residence in the 1400 block of Parade St. near Harbor Ave. (1st dist.)

And in NLB, on June 20, two men were sot/sounded after an apparent fight in NW NLB in the area of LB Blvd./69th St. (9th dist.)

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Jan 1, 2018 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) shows shootings in NLB

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For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated area shootings Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017:

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Mayor Robert Garcia, currently on what he describes as his "GoLongBeachTour," recently completed walks through parts of the 6th dist. "There's a lot going on in the 6th, which is one of Long Beach's most diverse communities," he wrote.

Garcia, who previously represented the 1st Council district (2009-2014) is one of only two remaining LB electeds who voted under Mayor Foster to erase budgeting for 208 citywide deployable police officers (including LBPD's former field anti-gang unit) starting in 2009. The other remaining elected is 6th dist. Councilman Dee Andrews.

As Mayor, Garcia has recommended budgets that have restored 17 of the 208 erased citywide deployable officers that he and Councilman Andrews voted to erase, with no publicly announced commitment to restore the remaining officers for taxpayers by any date(s) certain.

In June 2016, LB voters approved the Measure A "blank check" sales tax increase (advocated by Garcia) that now provides City Hall with a cash infusion of nearly $50 million annually.

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