Unoccupied Vehicle Struck By Gunfire Overnight, Follows Alleged Gang Graffiti Vandalism, LB Blvd/69th Way
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(Oct. 29, 2016) -- Shots were fired in the predawn hours Saturday (Oct. 29) and an unoccupied vehicle was struck by gunfire near the LB city limits in NW NLB (area of Long Beach Blvd./69th Way, 9th dist.) where LBPD says suspected gang members had allegedly been tagging (engaging in graffiti vandalism.)
LBPD Watch Commander Lt. Dina Zapalski says that at about 3:00 a.m., LBPD responded after a call reported shots-fired. Responding officers learned that suspected gang members were tagging in the area; confirmed that a shooting had occurred; found an unoccupied vehicle had been struck by gunfire...but no person appears to have been hit.
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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.
In September 2016, the City Council voted to adopt a FY17 budget recommended by Mayor Robert Garcia that -- despite June 2016 LB voter approval of a sales tax increase to 10% -- failed to restore LBPD's former field anti-gang unit (20 officers + 2 sergeants.) LBPD's current internal gang unit handles investigations, follow-ups, court appearances and the like. The Council's Sept. 2016 budget vote restored 10 officers out of roughly 200 officers that Long Beach taxpayers no longer receive as a result of Council budget actions since FY10.
The Council's September 2016 budget vote left LB taxpayers with a budgeted police level for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what Los Angeles would have if L.A. Mayor Garcetti and the L.A. City Council cut roughly 30% of LAPD's officers.
Most of the shootings we reported below were either confirmed as or investgated as possibly gang related by LBPD.
Oct. 28: Teenager shot, Silverado Park, coverage, coverage here.
Oct. 25: Man is shot, 1400 block E. Anaheim St. (6th dist.), coverage here.
Oct. 24: Gunfire SW of Traffic Circle Hits Two Cars, No Persons Hit (4th dist.), coverage here.
Oct: 23: Woman Shot At Midafternoon, 10th/Elm Near St. Mary Med Ctr (border 1st/6th dists.), coverage here.
Oct. 3: Man is fatally stabbed at 2 a.m., area of PCH/Pacific Ave. (border of 1st and 6th Council dists.), coverage here.
Oct. 1: Woman Is Shot, Area 15th/Cedar Ave. (1st dist.), coverage here.
Sept. 29: Man is shot/wounded in 1000 block of E. 10th St. (6th Council district), coverage here.
Sept. 29: Two women (adults) are shot/wounded in 600 block of Cerritos Ave. (2nd Council district), coverage here.
Sept. 29: Man is shot/wounded in the 700 block of E. 8th St. (1st Council district), coverage here.
Sept. 28: Man is shot/wounded in the area of Anaheim St./Olive Ave. (6th dist.), coverage .here
Sept. 25: Man Is Shot On Cherry Ave., Just North of PCH (4th dist.), coverage here.
Sept. 20: Fight Among Men (Adults) Living In WLB Abandoned Carport Leads To One Battered, Another Stabbed (border 1st/7th dists.), coverage here
Sept. 15: Man is Shot, 3400 block of E. 67th St. (9th dist.), coverage here.
Sept. 14: Man fatally shot, woman wounded, 5400 block Atlantic Ave. (8th dist.), coverage here
Sept 14: Shots fired, vehicle damaged, area 11th/Gaviota.(6th dist.)
September 12: Woman found deceased in residence, 6700 block Gardenia (9th dist.), coverage here
Sept. 11: Man Shot To Death, Locust Ave./12th St., (1st dist.) coverage here
Sept 5: Man Found Fatally Shot On Road Within Long Beach Port (2nd dist.), coverage here.
Sept. 1 and 2: Two Shootings In Two Days Hit Vehicles, Miss Persons: One in NLB, Another in Central LB, coverage here.
Tue. Aug. 30: Man (adult) is shot -- and killed -- in the area of Hile Ave. north of 16th St. The area is just west of Temple Ave., about three blocks north and a bit west of LB's iconic "Joe Jost's." (4th dist.) LBREPORT.com coverage here
Mon. Aug. 29, 15th St./Walnut Ave., 1:10 a.m., man shows up at hospital with a gunshot wound, says a man tried to rob him and then shot him; officers unable to find evidence of a shooting at that location (6th dist.) LBREPORT.com coverage here
Mon. Aug. 29, 1:45 a.m., man shot, area 15th St./Gundry Ave., possible drive-by shooting (6th dist.) LBREPORT.com coverage here
Sunday Aug. 28, 12:30 a.m., Anaheim St./Newport Ave.; shots fired at victims in a vehicle; vehicle is hit, occupants not hit (4th dist.)
Mon. Aug. 22: Man (adult) shot, area 11th St./MLK Ave. (6th dist.), coverage here.
Aug. 11: Man (adult) shot, 200 block of 69th Way (9th district), coverage here
Aug. 11: Juvenile shot, 11th St/MLK Ave. (6th dist.), coverage here
Aug. 6: Mother and daughter (age 4) are shot to death, 9th St./Locust Ave. (1st distict), coverage here
Aug 6: Group fight, two stabbed, one of whom dies, 2600 block E. Anaheim St. (6th dist.), coverage here
Aug. 5: Body of 19 yr old found at Willow St./San Gabriel River, a homicide (5th dist.), coverage here
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