(Oct. 14, 2015, 11:04 a.m.) -- As flashed on LBREPORT.com's shortly after dawn, two people were shot shortly before daybreak today (Wednesday Oct. 14) in the area of 15th St./Cherry Ave.

And in a separate crime scene at about the same time roughly two blocks west, gunfire flew and a peson was hit, suffering a graze wound.

Initial information is sketchy. LBPD Watch Commander Lt. Poe Siavii tells LBREPORT.com that at about 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 14, officers were dispatched to the area of 14th/Cherry in response to a shooting; officers found two men (adults) had been hit; LBFD transported the victims to a hospital; they're reported in stable condition shortly after dawn. LBPD's gang unit responded and the shooting is being investigated as possibly gang related.

At about the same time (about 5:30 a.m.), gunfire was heard in the area of 15th St./Gaviota Ave. (about two blocks west.) A victim was hit, grazed by a round. At early morning, LBPD was investigating whether the Gaviota Ave. shooting was related to the Cherry Ave. double-shooting.

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Red Xs=2014 and 2015 murders to date; Blue Xs=2014 and 2015 shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs= 2014 and 2015 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

The previous evening (Oct. 13), the City Council voted 9-0 to send to the Council's Housing and Neighborhoods Committee a proposal by Councilman Dee Andrews (joined by Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal and Councilmembers Lena Gonzalez and Daryl Supernaw) to create a "Dog Walker Watch" program in which volunteers walking their dogs would be trained to be observant and reported suspicious activities. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

On Sept. 22, the City Council's Public Safety Committee (chair Price, vice chair Supernaw, member Austin) heard an LBPD report on shootings but made no recommendations and didn't refer the matter to the full City Council.

On Sept 15 and 22, 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 and 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.

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In other recent shootings:

Oct . 9: 2000 block Olive Ave., man (adult) is shot (6th district.).

Oct. 9: 3000 block Delta Ave., shots fired into an occupied dwelling (7th dist., no person hit.)

Oct. 6: Man is shot, 2600 block of South St. (border of 8th/9th Council districts)

Oct. 5: Man shot, 1900 block of Caspian Ave (a couple of blocks north of PCH, east of Santa Fe Ave., 1st Council district near border with 7th.)

Oct. 4: Shots fired, vehicle struck, driver not hit, 1400 block E. 68th St. (9th dist.)

Oct. 3: Two men shot, area 200 block @. 14th St. (area 14th St. Park/Pacific Ave., 1st Council district)

Oct. 3: Boy (male juvenile) is shot while riding his bicycle, PCH/Golden, border 1st/6th districts)

Oct. 2: Man shot, LB Blvd/Bort St. (Coolidge Triangle area, 9th dist.)

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Sept. 29: Two men (adults) shot in the 2600 block of Delta Ave. (WLB, 7th dist.)

Sept. 27: Man shot, area 15th/Daisy Ave. (1st Council district)

Sept. 25: Woman shot, 14th St. Park/Seaside Park area (1st Council district)

Sept. 25: Man shot, area Artesia Blvd./Minnesota Ave. (9th dist., NLB)

Sept. 24: Man shot, area of Seabright Ave. near West Wardlow Rd. (7th district.)

Sept. 24: Man shot -- and killed -- in the area southeast of Atlantic Ave./South St. (8th dist.)

Sept. 23: Man struck/wounded in the area of MLK/17th St. (6th Council district)

Sept. 23: Shooting scene but no victim located, 700 block Cedar Ave. (1st dist.)

Sept. 18, Long Beach Blvd/Louise St., two people -- a girl (female juvenile) and a man (adult) -- were shot/wounded by a suspect on a skateboard in the area of Louise St./Long Beach (8th Council district)

Sept. 17: A suspect shoots at a security guard in the area of LB Blvd./20th St. following a dispute; the gunfire missed the guard. (6th dist.)

Sept. 16: A man (adult) was shot and killed in the 1200 block of Chestnut Ave. (1st Council district.)

Sept. 15, a man was shot/wounded in the 2400 block of E. 14th St. (western part of the 4th dist.)

Sept. 11, a man was shot/wounded in the area of 52nd St/Elm Ave. (8th dist.)

Sept. 10 in the midnight hour, a man was fatally shot in the 2100 block of Pasadena Ave. (6th Council district)

Sept. 7 (Labor Day), a man was shot -- and killed -- in the 400 block of W. 5th St. (area Chestnut Ave., 1st district, about four blocks north of City Hall.)

Sept. 7: a non-fatal shooting occurred in NW North Long Beach (9th dist.) in the area of Butler Ave/Artesia Blvd.

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On Sept. 3, someone fired gunshots at a man (adult) who was driving along the 1400 block of Gaviota Ave. (6th Council district.) The shooter missed him but struck his vehicle.

On Sept. 1 in the area of the 16th St./Pine Ave. (1st Council district), a parked vehicle was struck by gunfire although no person was hit.

Also on Sept. 1, a man (adult) was hit by gunfire at midmorning in the area of 10th St./Olive Ave. (border of 6th/1st districts (and by midafternoon, LBPD announced the arrest of a suspect on booking charges of attempted murder.)

On Aug. 31, a shooting in the 300 block of E. Eagle St. (east of LB Blvd., south of Burnett St.) leaves a victim wounded (6th district.)

On Aug. 28, a man was shot and wounded in what appeared to be a "walk up" shooting in the area of 10th St./Virginia Court (between Magnolia and Chestnut Aves., 1st dist.) roughly a mile due north of City Hall (an incident being investigated as possibly gang related.)

On Aug. 27, a woman (adult) was shot and wounded, and some cars were damaged by gunfire in the Seaside Park/14th St. Park area near Chestnut Ave. (1st district.).

On Aug. 24, a 17 year old male was struck by gunfire in the Wrigley area (Burnett St./Linden Ave., 6th district.)

On Aug. 24, shots were fired but no person and no property were hit in the area of 16th/Pine. (1st dist.)

On Aug. 23, a man was shot and killed in the area of PCH/Pine Ave. (border of 1st and 6th districts.)

On Aug. 22, a woman (adult) was shot and wounded in the in the area of Cedar Ave./Louise St. (8th Council district.)