Two Shot -- One of Whom Dies -- In Brazen Midafternoon Gunfire In NW Long Beach

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(Mar. 3, 2016) -- Two people were shot -- one of whom did not survive -- in a brazen midafternoon shooting on Thursday (Mar. 3) in NW Long Beach.

In initial information, LBPD says officers responded to the area of Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave. shortly after 3 p.m. following a report of an assault with a deadly weapon. Two men suffered gunshot wounds; LBFD transported the victims to a hospital; one was pronounced deceased; the other was treated for what appeared to be a non-life-threatening injury.

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On Mar. 3, two people were shot -- one of whom did not survive -- in a midafternoon shooting in NW NLB in the area of Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave.

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.

On Sept 15 and 22, 2015 the Council voted (without dissent) for a FY16 budget, recommended by Mayor Robert Garcia, that failed to restore LBPD's former field anti-gang unit. It leaves LB taxpayers with a budgeted police level for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what L.A. would have if L.A.'s Mayor and Council cut roughly 30% of LAPD's officers.

In August 2012, Mayor Foster first recommended the budgeted elimination of LBPD's field anti-gang unit. The Council balked, funded the unit at half strength for a year, but in subsequent years quietly let it disappear. Then-Vice Mayor Garcia (chosen by Foster to chair the Council's Public Safety Committee in mid-2010) held no hearings on Foster's proposal or any public safety impacts of Foster's budget recommendations. Councilwoman Suzie Price, whom Mayor Garcia named to chair the Public Safety Committee in 2014, has followed that practice regarding Garcia's budget recommendations.