Shots Heard In South Wrigley, Area 19th/Cedar (6th dist.); Officers Find Man Fatally Shot Area 17th/Pacific (1st dist.)

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Gunfire Damages Vehicle, Area Walnut Ave./14th St. (6th dist.)

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(Mar. 7, 2016, 11:45 a.m.) -- Residents in the neighborhood in and around 14th St./Walnut Ave. (6th Council district) heard gunfire on Sunday night (Mar. 6) shortly before 10 p.m...and arriving officers found evidence that a shooting occurred and a vehicle was damaged.

LBPD Public Information Officer Marlene Arrona says officers were dispatched on March 6 at about 9:58 p.m. in response to a call reporting shots heard; officers found evidence of the gunfire and saw that a vehicle had sustained damage...but didn't locate any person(s) hit. LBPD's investigation is ongoing.

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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, in the predawn hours on the same day (Mar. 6), South Wrigley residents (6th district) heard gunfire...and responding officers found a man (adult) fatally shot in his car in the 1700 block of Pacific Ave. (1st 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.

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.