Red Xs=2014 murders; Blue Xs=2014 shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs=shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings. Map accounts for shootings in area shown.

LBPD Public Information Officer Claudia Lopez tells LBREPORT.com that at about 2 p.m. Sat. Nov. 15, officers responded to LB Memorial Hospital regarding a stabbing. Officers located the victim and learned that he was stabbed in the area of PCH/Myrtle Ave.

At midafternoon, the victim was reported in critical condition. Gang detectives were on-scene and LBPD's investigation is ongoing.

Further as we learn it.

[LBREPORT.com note and comment: On September 2 and 9, 2014 the City Council voted -- without dissent -- to approve a FY15 budget recommended by Mayor Garcia that ended funding for LBPD's former 22-member field anti-gang unit. Mayor Foster proposed the action in Aug. 2012 (FY13); at that time, the Council instead cut the field anti-gang unit in half in Sept. 2012, using "one time funding" to operate it at half-strength. In Sept. 2013 (FY14), the Council quietly let the field anti-gang unit shrink to single digits (taken from patrol) and in Sept. 2014 (FY15 budget), the Council voted to eliminate the field anti-gang unit entirely. An internal LBPD gang unit remains.