Labor Day Afternoon Shooting, Artesia/Butler, NW NLB
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(Sept. 7, 2015, 7:30 p.m.) -- A man (adult) was shot and wounded on Labor Day afternoon in NW North Long Beach.
LBPD Public Information Officer Marlene Arrona tells LBREPORT.com (preliminary information) that at about 3:20 p.m., officers were dispatched to the area of E. Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave. to investigate a shooting. They learned taht a man (adult) victim was transported to a hospital by family/friend before officers arrived. The victim's injury appears to be non-life-threatening.
The suspect(s) is outstanding; LBPD is investigating what took place as possibly gang related and the investigation is ongoing.
Today's (Sept. 7) NW NLB shooting follows eight shootings (hit and no-hit) in the 1st and 6th Council districts since Aug. 23.
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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 Central LB.
On August 22, a woman (adult) was shot and wounded in the area of Cedar Ave./Louise St, in the 8th Council district.
On Aug. 18, a man and a woman were shot in the 6300 block of LB Blvd in NW NLB...a few hours after an Aug. 18 City Council hearing on the management proposed, Mayor recommended FY16 police budget.
During the Aug. 18 budget hearing, no Council members made any motions, or indicated any willingness to restore all of part of LBPD's former field anti-gang unit, or any of roughly 200 officers Mayor recommended/Council enacted budgets have erased since 2009
LBPD's former field anti-gang unit previously deployed 20 officers + 2 sergeants in gang impacted neighborhoods, where officers could observe conditions firsthand, work contacts and gather intelligence. LBPD still has a budgeted anti-gang unit (handling investigations, filing cases and the like) but not an anti-gang unit operating in the field as previously.
