(January 12, 2021, 11:10 p.m.) -- A car to car shooting along busy Cherry Ave. between Market and South Streets took place just minutes before Mayor Robert Garcia began his "State of the City" message in which Garia didn't mention crime or multiple shootings (over a dozen since Jan.1) disproportionately impacting mainly working class neighborhoods in NLB (northern CD 8/Austin plus parts of CD 9/Richardson) and Central LB (parts of CD 1/Zendejas and CD 6/Saro.) LHPD Watch Commander Lt. Megan Zabel tells LBREPORT.com (preliminary information) that on Jan. 12 officers responded to the area of Cherry Ave./56th St. at about 5:20 p.m. (the Mayor's event began at 6 p.m.) and determined that the shooting occurred between two moving vehicles north of Rogers St. The victim's vehicle crashed in the area of 56th St. and its driver, struck by the gunfire, was taken by LBFD to a hospital. The suspect vehicle fled the area and officers located evidence including bullet casings along north and southbound lanes of Cherry Ave. between South and Market Sts. The car to car shooting is the third within CD 8/Austin since Jan. 10. LBPD PIO Allison Gallagher told LBREPORT that on Jan. 10 that a woman riding her bicycle along Del Amo Blvd. near Pacific Ave. was shot/wounded. She was approached by an unknown man (adult) who shot her and fled the scene. PIO Gallagher says that on Jan. 11 at about 10:30 a.m., a man (adult) was shot/wounded in the 2600 block of E. 56th St. when a suspect approached him. shot him and fled the scene. About twelve hours later at roughly 10:35 p,m., Michael Antonio Brown, Jr., 34, of Long Beach turned himself in at a police substation and was arrested/booked on suspicion of attempted murder. [Scroll down for further.] |
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