Initial information is sketchy. LBPD Watch Commander Lt. Brian Watson says that at about 6:45 p.m. officers responded to a sots call in the 1600 block of Stanton Place and found a man (adult) down in the street with multiple gunshot wounds. LBFD transported the victim to a hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

It was LB's third shooting in five days and the fifth since March 1.

• March 8, 2021: 1100 block of E. 11th St. (CD 6/Saro) a woman standing in front of a residence with relatives says a sedan pulled up and someone fired shots at them. The rounds missed hitting people but officers found casings and an unoccupied vehicle and a building struck by gunfire.

• March 7, 2021: Temple Ave.,/Anaheim St. (CD 4/Supernaw) roughly 11:00 p.m. a man is shot/wounded, told police he was walking in the area when he heard shots and realizd he'd been struck by gunfire. LBPD found the man in the area of 10th St/Temple Ave. and also found evidence, including bullet casings and a parked unoccupied vehicle struck by gunfire

A little over a week earlier on March 2, a senior citizen was struck/wounded by gunfire at midafternoon in the area of 17th St./Gundry Ave. (south of LBCC's Centrl LB campus in CD 6/Saro.)

And on March 1, gunfire flew at midafternoon in the area of 4th St./Hermosa Ave. (Alamitos Beach, CD 2/Allen). LBPD found a man without injuries but with evidence of a shooting

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