Shots Heard In South Wrigley, Area 19th/Cedar (6th dist.); Officers Find Man Fatally Shot Area 17th/Pacific (1st dist.)
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(Mar. 6, 2016, 11:20 a.m.) -- In LB's second murder in three days and third murder within a week, residents of South Wrigley reported hearing shots fired in the 2 a.m. hour in the area of 19th St./Cedar Ave. LBPD indicates in a release that it dispatched officers at about 2:44 a.m.; they found a man (adult) with an apparent gunshot injury in a vehicle a few blocks south and east in the 1700 block of Pacific Ave.
LBFD paramedics responded and determined that the man was deceased at the scene. The victim has been identified as Ryan Davone Martin, 23, of Long Beach.
As of midmorning Sunday, no one is in custody; there's no suspect information immediately available; a motive for the shooting is unknown and LBPD's investigation is ongoing.
LBPD asks anyone with information about what took place to contact Homicide Detectives Hugo Cortes and Mark Mattia at (562) 570-7244. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may call 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or text TIPLA plus your tip to 274637 (CRIMES), or visit www.LACrimeStoppers.org.
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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 NLB.
As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, on March 3 two people were shot -- one of whom did not survive -- in NW Long Beach (area Artesia Blvd/Butler Ave., 9th dist.) in an incident LBPD indicated is being investigated as possibly gang related. A week ago, a man was found shot to death in the area of 10th St./Norman Court (4th district.)
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.
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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.
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In other area shootings:
Mar. 4: Two people shot, one of whom dies, area Artesia Blvd/Butler Ave. (9th dist.)
Feb. 28: Man found shot to death, area 10th St./Norman Court (4th dist.)
Feb. 27: Gunfire hits vehicle, area 11th/Ohio (4th dist.)
Feb. 8: 2600 block Adriatic Ave., man is shot (7th dist.)
Feb. 6: 1900 block of W. Wardlow Rd., man is shot (7th dist.)
Feb. 2: 2200 block Lime Ave., man is shot (6th dist.)
