Man Is Shot At Midafternoon Saturday, Myrtle Ave. North of PCH, LBPD Investigating As Possibly <nobr>Gang-Related</nobr>

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Man Is Shot At Midafternoon Saturday, Myrtle Ave. North of PCH, LBPD Investigating As Possibly Gang-Related

Shooting comes within hours of funeral for Keshawn Brooks, 15 yr old murdered in WLB gang-related stabbing

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(March 29, 2015) -- Roughly two hours after the funeral service for Keshawn Brooks (LBREPORT.com coverage here), murdered as he walked home from Cabrillo High School in a crime the District Attorney alleges was committed in association with a criminal street gang, a shooting LBPD took place in Central LB in the 1800 block of Myrtle Ave. (just north of PCH and Poly High School) that LBPD says was possibly gang related.

LBPD Public Information Officer Marlene Arrona says that on March 28 at roughly 1:36 p.m., officers were dispatched to shots heard in the area of the 1800 block of Myrtle Ave...and found evidence that a shooting had occurred.

Officers later located a man (adult) at a local hospital with a gunshot injury (described as non-life-threatening.)

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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 for shootings in area shown.

LBPD says the shooting is possibly gang related and its investigation is ongoing.

On December 29, 2014 a man (adult) was shot roughly two blocks north in the area of Myrtle Ave./20th St.

And on November 15, 2014, a male (age not indicated) was stabbed at Myrtle/PCH.

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Long Beach Mayors Bob Foster and Robert Garcia both recommended, and in Sept. 2014 a Council majority approved without dissent, a FY15 (current) budget that fails to fund LBPD's now-former field anti-gang unit. The field anti-gang unit previously deployed twenty officers 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.