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Annamarie Perez, 24, Fatally Shot In Downtown LB Was From LB, Lived In LB, Attended LBCC; "Go Fund Me" Page Invites Help To Pay For Her Funeral

It's second "Go Fund Me" effort related to a LB homicide in a little less than two months


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(Dec. 2, 2018) -- To her friends, she was Annamarie Perez. Her Facebook page says she was from Long Beach, lived in Long Beach and studied at Long Beach City College. We've learned through one of her friends that she worked as a caregiver at a senior living home in OC. We know from LBPD's release that she was 24 years old.

Her aunt has set up "Go Fund Me" page for funeral expenses. "We want to help her parents and grandparents as much as we can and don't want them to worry about costs while mourning," it says. The "Go Fund Me" page can be accessed at this link..

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This is second "Go Fund Me" page LBREPORT.com has reported in a little less than two months as a result of a Long Beach murder. The prior LB homicide-related "Go Fund Me" effort was in October 2018 for the family of Raul Corrales, a grandfather shot to death while watering his lawn in a WLB neighborhood following what police say was a gang-related altercation earlier in the day at nearby Cabrillo High.

Regarding Ms. Perez's murder, LBPD says preliminary investigation suggests the shooting was "the result of a verbal altercation in a parking lot between two groups of male and female adults. The victim was not believed to be a part of either group." We asked LBPD's on-duty weekend PIO whether the verbal altercation between the two groups had any gang related component(s) to it. [Dec. 2, 2:45 P.M. Update: LBPD PIO Arantxa Chavarria says "At this point in the investigation, we have no evidence of this murder being gang related."]

We do know that Ms. Perez's homicide was the 30th in Long Beach this year. It was the 11th in LB's 1st Council district (Lena Gonzalez) which leads all other Council districts in homicides. (LB's adjacent 6th district (Dee Andrews) is the second highest with 7 to date.)

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Councilwoman Gonzalez has complained about a lack of equity in matters such as park programming and band concerts, but in our view hasn't prioritized correcting what we consider the single worst inequity in the City of Long Beach: the failure of previous Mayors and Councils to restore public safety to predominantly working class neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by violent crime. The red "X" with the arrow shows the location of Ms. Perez's homicide.


Jan 1, 2018 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; Blue * asterisk=victim hit, police unable to locate crime scene. Map is unofficial. A separate map (not shown here) shows shootings in NLB.

For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated shootings in the area Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017:


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In August 2016, Councilwoman Gonzalez famously tried to cover LBREPORT.com's camera lens when we asked her if she'd support restoring more than the 8 citywide deployable officers Mayor Garcia recommended in his FY17 budget. Two years later, Mayor Garcia recommended and the incumbent Council approved a FY19 budget that to date has restored 22 citywide deployable budgeted officers but has failed to restore 186 such officers that LB taxpayers previously had (including LBPD's field anti-gang unit.) And that's despite LB City Hall now collecting $50+ million annually in additional sales tax revenue under Measure A.


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Councilwoman Gonzalez (re-elected without a ballot opponent in the 2018 election cycle) is now a speculated candidate to fill the state Senate seat soon to be declared vacant following the election of incumbent Ricardo Lara to state Insurance Commissioner.

Some will say this isn't the time to "politicize" this tragedy. No. We say ¡Ya basta! This is the right time...and overdue.

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