Sunday Afternoon South Wrigley Shooting, 2100 block Oregon Ave., Rounds Miss Hitting Victim

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Sunday Afternoon Wrigley Shooting, 2100 block Oregon Ave., Rounds Miss Hitting Victim

It's second Wrigley "no person hit" shooting within past 3 weeks

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(Jan. 7, 2019, 10:20 a.m .) -- Gunfire flew in south Wrigley at midafternoon Sunday Jan. 6, aimed at a man (adult) on the sidewalk but didn't hit him.

LBPD Public Information Officer Benjamin Hearst says that on Sun. Jan. 6, 2019 at about 2:30 p.m., officers were sent to the 2100 block of Oregon Ave. (7th Council district) regarding a shooting that had just occurred. They found a man on the sidewalk who'd been shot at but not struck by gunfire...and officers located evidence of a shooting.

LBPD says it's investigating what took place as possibly gang related.

About 13 hours earlier and about a mile southeast, a suspect fired shots at a group of individuals in downtown Long Beach in the area of Pine Ave./5th St.

As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, the northern part of Wrigley heard overnight gunfire on December 19 in the 3100 block of Chestnut Ave. (casings found by a resident) with callers also reporting gunfire heard about the same time in the area of Spring St./DeForest Ave. (no evidence of shooting found.) (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

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.

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For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated shootings in the area Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017. A separate map (not shown here) shows cumulated shootings during the period in NLB.

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