Two Shootings In Two Days Hit Vehicles, Miss Persons: One in NLB, Another in Central LB

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(Sept. 3, 2016, 4:55 p.m.) -- Long Beach had its second "no hit" shooting in as many days last night (Fri. Sept. 2), this time in NLB (9th Council district, north of South St. b/w Orange and Cherry Aves.) when the shooter missed hitting a person but damaged a car. A day earlier (Sept. 1) in Central LB, some person(s) fired "multiple" rounds that damaged vehicles (LBPD didn't provide a number) parked along PCH north of Poly High.

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LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. James Richardson tells LBREPORT.com that on Friday night Sept. 2 at about 9:18 p.m., officers were dispatched to a call of a possible shooting in the 1700 block of E. Hungerford St. They arrived to find a man (adult) who indicated he was walking in the area when a man (adult) exited a black colored vehicle and fired two shots at him. The gunfire missed him but struck and damaged a vehicle. LBPD is investigating this as possibly gang related.

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

A day earlier (Sept. 1) at 12:20 a.m., LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson says officers responded to a shots call in the 700 block of E. Pacific Coast Highway; found evidence that a shooting had occurred with multiple rounds fired; no person(s) were hit but more than one vehicle was struck (we don't have a number.) This crime is also being investigated as possibly gang related.