Shooting PCH/Pacific (Sun Nite Oct. 14); Residents/Businesses In Nearby Portions Of 1st and 6th Council Districts Have Endured Multiple Shootings, Fatal & Non-Fatal Last night's SW corner shooting (1st dist) is just across street from NW corner (6th dist) where proposal to locate a title loan business has sparked controversy

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Shooting PCH/Pacific (Sun Nite Oct. 14); Residents/Businesses In Nearby Portions Of 1st and 6th Council Districts Have Endured Multiple Shootings, Fatal & Non-Fatal

Last night's SW corner shooting (1st dist) is just across street from NW corner (6th dist) where proposal to allow a title loan business has sparked controversy

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(Oct. 15, 2012) -- A man was shot last night (Sunday Oct. 14) at the SW corner of Pacific Coast Highway at Pacific Ave. (1st Council district), directly across the street from the location (NW corner, 6th Council district) where an applicant's request to locate a title loan business has sparked controversy [appeals by residents and the applicant are heading for the City Council in the coming weeks].

LBPD Public Information Officer Lisa Massacani says that at about 9:50 p.m. on Oct. 14, a man [adult] was approached by two male suspects, one of whom produced a handgun and shot the victim in the lower body.

The victim was transported to a hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries; the suspects fled on foot.

The shooting occurred barely eight hours after a shooting in NLB (west of LB Blvd., south of Market St., 8th Council district) left a man wounded. (Coverage, click here).

LBPD says the suspects in both incidents are outstanding, and anyone with information should contact LBPD's Gang Detail at (562) 570-7370. Anonymous tips via text or web may be submitted via www.tipsoft.com.

As previously reported by LBReport.com, the City Council voted on Sept. 4 for a FY13 budget that cuts LBPD funding and will result in the elimination of half of the police department's anti-gang unit.

The intersection of PCH/Pacific, which community advocates have said they consider the gateway to the South Wrigley area, was the scene of fatal gunfire (SE corner) in April 2012, when a gunman allegedly opened fire on a man standing on the sidewalk, killing him...and an arriving LBPD officer was met by gunfire (that narrowly missed the officer).

As indicated in the map (above), the PCH/Pacific area has been the site of multiple shootings (fatal and non-fatal) in the past year (red X's indicate 2011 and 2012 murders; blue X's indicate shootings that have come to our attention since Aug. 2011)

The 1st Council district (south side of PCH) is represented by Vice Mayor Robert Garcia, chosen by Mayor Foster to chair the Council's "Public Safety Committee." The 6th district is represented by Dee Andrews, who was reelected without a ballot opponent in April 2012.