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Three Victims -- Two Men, One Woman -- Shot/Wounded In NLB In Midnite Hour, Area 59th/DeForest


(Sept. 24, 2014, initially front page breaking) -- LBPD confirms (early information via LBPD Public Information Officer Megan Zabel) that three people -- two men (adults) and a woman (adult) -- were shot and wounded in the midnight hour this morning (Sept. 24) in the area of 59th St./DeForest Ave. while standing outside a residence.


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. Map accounts for shootings in displayed area only.




Officers responded at 12:02 a.m. The victims' injuries are described as "non-life-threatening." The victims are reported in stable condition...and LBPD is investigating as "possibly gang related."

This morning's shooting comes just weeks after City Council approves without dissent (votes Sept. 2 and Sept 9) FY15 budget, recommended by exiting Mayor Bob Foster and entering Mayor Robert Garcia, that eliminates budgeted funding for LBPD's former 22-sworn officer anti-gang field unit (in FY13 cut in half, in FY14 had unbudgeted skeleton crew of roughly 7 officers taken from patrol and backfilled with overtime) and doesn't restore any of roughly 200 police officers eliminated in Council-adopted budgets since Sept. 2009.

Long Beach, which is L.A. County's second largest city, now has a budgeted sworn officer level available for citywide deployment (not including contracted officers restricted to Port, Airport, LBTransit, LBCC, LBUSD) roughly equivalent per capita to cutting roughly 30% of LAPD's officers. Further to follow on LBREPORT.com



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