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(Mar. 18, 2016) -- A woman (adult) became the victim of a midnight-hour drive-by shooting at the northern end of NLB on Friday (Mar. 18).
LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson tells LBREPORT.com that on Mar. 18 at about 1:13 a.m., an officer was dispatched to a hospital in Downey regarding a gunshot victim who'd been shot in the 6800 block of Atlantic Avenue (north of the 91 freeway) in Long Beach. Assisting officers responded to the alleged shooting location and found evidence of a shooting.
The woman was treated for a non-life-threatening injury. LBPD believes she was shot by currently unknown subjects who were in a vehicle at approximately 12:30 a.m.
LBPD says it's currently unknown if the shooting is gang related; there's no vehicle description at this point...and LBPD's investigation is ongoig.
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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 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.
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In other area shootings:
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.)
