(June 10, 2019, 12:10 a.m.) -- Long Beach had its TWENTIETH shooting crime scene (fatal + wounding + no persons hit) since May 7 on late Sunday afternoon (June 9), when a man was shot/wounded in the 6100 block of Atlantic Ave.,(basically in the area of the forthcoming "The Uptown" commercial development.) The June 9 shooting comes four days after a double homicide -- two men fatally shot a little over half a mile south in the 5500 block of Atlantic Ave. in the 8th Council district.
Initial information is sketchy. LBPD overnight Watch Commander Lt. Tony Lopez tells LBREPORT.com that at about 5:45 p.m. on Sunday June 9, LBPD responded to a shooting in the 6100 block of Atlantic Ave. Officers found a man (adult) shot/wounded; LBFD transported him to a hospital and LBPD gang detectives are investigating. Prior to the June 9 shooting and June 5 double-homicide on Atlantic Ave., on May 30, someone shot at a man driving along South St. at Paramount Blvd. on the border of the 8th/9th Council districts (coverage here) and on May 27, a man was shot/wounded near the front door of Addams Elementary School (200 block E. Plymouth St., 8th Dist., (coverage here) LBREPORT.com has a full list of the 20 shootings since May 7 below. As separately noted by LBREPORT.com, neither LB Mayor Garcia nor any Councilmember(s) have agendized an item regarding the now-20 shooting crime scenes since May 1 for June 11 Council discussion/action.
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For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated shootings in the area Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017
In other recent LB shootings (person-hit shootings plus "no-person-hit" shootings):
As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, following recommendations by then-Mayor Bob Foster, the LB City Council (which included then-Councilman Robert Garcia) erased over a period of years starting in 2009 (entering FY10) 208 budgeted citywide deployable police officers (over 20% of LB's citywide deployable level) including the elimination of LBPD's field anti-gang unit. Under Mayor Garcia, despite LB voter approval of a June 2016 sales tax increase ("Measure A") now bringing City Hall over $50 million more annually, LB's current City Council has restored only 22 of the budget-erased officers, leaving LB without 186 officers (including a field anti-gang unit) that it previously had but no longer has. (LBRPEORT.com special coverage, here.)
For a continually updated chart showing LB shootings/homicides by Council district click here. To see details on LB's police and firefighter levels for taxpayers, click here.
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