(April 20, 2021) -- LBPD says a transient living in a homeless encampment allowed to persist {on CalTrans or County property} adjoining LB's north Wrigley neighboirhood {southbound 405 @ northbound 710 freeway, CD 7/Uranga} was shot to death at midafternoon April 19.

LBPD says in an April 20 release that at about 2:25 p.m., officers were sent to the location, found a man (adult) near a homeless encampment who was unresponsive with gunshot wounds and officers immediately began performing life-saving measures until LBFD arrived and pronounced the victim deceased.

"Based on the preliminary investigation, detectives believe the victim, who resided at the encampment, was shot multiple times in the upper torso by an unknown suspect who fled the scene prior to the officers’ arrival. No weapons were located at the scene, and the motive for the shooting remains under investigation. The Los Angeles County Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner will work to identify the decedent and notify the next of kin."