Man Is Shot, Midmorning Monday (Sept. 1), Area 10th St./Olive Ave.
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(Sept. 1, 2015) -- As reported on our front page (www.LBREPORT.com) earlier today (Sept. 1), gunfire was heard and a man (adult) was hit in the area of 10th St./Olive Ave. at midmorning...and at midafternoon, LBPD announced the arrest of a suspect.
LBPD Public Information Sgt. Megan Zabel told LBREPORT.com that at about 10:26 a.m., officers responded to reports of gunfire in the area of 10th St./Olive Ave. and found a man (adult) hit by gunfire. LBFD paramedics transported victim to a hospital in stable condition...and LBPD located and detained a subject of interest. That individual, a 34 year old LB man, was subsequently arrested on a charge of attempted murder in connection with the 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=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 Sept. 1 shooting comes two weeks to the day after Councilmembers held a budget hearing on LBPD's budget; no Councilmembers made any motions, or indicate any willingnes to do so in coming weeks, 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.
Two days earlier on Aug. 28 -- roughly nine-tenths of a mile due west along 10th St., 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.) roughly a mile due north of City Hall in the historic Willmore City area (1st Council district.) It's being investigated as possibly gang related.
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About an hour after the shooting, LBPD officers were on an unrelated call at St. Mary hospital when a man approached them with two stab wounds and indicated he'd been stabbed in the 1000 block of Pine Ave. That incident is also 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.)
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On Aug. 24, gunfire wounded a 17 year old male in the Wrigley area (Burnett St./Linden Ave., 6th district.) On the same night (Aug. 24), shots were fired but no person and no property were hit in the area of 16th Pine (1st district.)
A night before that (Aug. 23), a man was shot and killed in the area of PCH/Pine Ave. (border of 1st and 6th districts.)
