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(Mar. 19, 2016, updated March 20) -- A man (adult) was shot and killed in the predawn hours Saturday (Mar. 19) near the WLB city limits in the 7th Council district.

In preliminary information, LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson says that on Mar. 19 at about 2:35 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 2300 block of Cameron St. (just south of Wardlow Rd.) in response to shots heard...and while responding to the scene were advised that there was a subject down in the street.

The victim was a man (adult), suffering from a gunshot wound; LBFD responded and determined that the man was deceased at the scene.

Mar. 20 UPDATE: The victim has been identified as Christopher Delatorre, 30 year old resident of Long Beach.

LBPD says the incident is being investigated as gang related.

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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. Separate maps (not shown here) indicate add'l shootings in Central LB and NLB.

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.

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In other area shootings:

Mar. 18: Woman shot in midnight hour drive-by, 6800 block Atlantic Ave. (9th district)

Mar. 17: Man shot, area 10th/Lime (border 1st/6th districts)

Mar. 11: Man is shot, area 1st St. between Lime/Alamitos (2nd district)

Mar. 6: Man is shot, area 19th/Cedar (6th dist.), found dead in vehicle 1700 block Pacific Ave. (1st dist.)

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.)

Jan. 24: 1900 block Pasadena Ave., unoccupied vehicle struck by gunfire (6th dist.)

Jan. 24: 800 block Walnut Ave.: two vehicles damaged by gunfire (2nd dist.)

Jan. 17: 1300 block Walnut Ave. (three vehicles damaged by gunfire (3:30 a.m.) (6th dist.),

Jan. 10: 3200 block E. Artesia Blvd. (9th dist.): Man (adult) was found shot multiple times

Jan. 9: Chestnut/17th St.: Evidence of gunfire, no persons/property struck (1st dist.)

Jan. 1: 1300 block MLK Ave. (6th Council district); no persons hit

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