(Sept. 19, 2018, 7:45 p.m.) -- At roughly 3:00 p.m. today (Sept. 19), a person reported with a gun in the area of 15th St. between Atlantic Ave. and Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. (southern end of Poly High campus) triggered a major LBPD response, a precautionary lockdown of the Central LB campus, a safety sweep of the campus by officers, texted instructions to parents to meet their children at an off campus location (Anaheim/Atlantic) with students exiting the campus escorted by LBPD officers.
LBPD Public Information Officer Arantxa Chavarria tells LBREPORT.com that there's no indication the suspect(s) entered the campus; there were weapons recovered or reports of shots fired. The Central LB campus is at the 6th Council district's border with the 1st Council district. The map below shows homicides and
The map below covers the period Jan. 1, 2018 through Sept. 17, 2018 as follows: Red Xs=homicides; Blue Xs= shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Green Xs= shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified). Map is unofficial. A separate map (not shown here) shows shootings in NLB [Scroll down for further.] |
Two days earlier (Sept. 17), a man was shot/wounded in the area of Long Beach Blvd./14th St.(about a block north of Anaheim St.) . For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated shootings in the area Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017:
LBPD's investigation of what took place is ongoing.
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