LBPD Public Information Officer Lt. James Richardson tells LBREPORT.com says in preliminary information that at 11:39 a.m. LBPD received a call regarding gunshots in the area of the 600 block of Esther St. (one block south of PCH near Atlantic Ave.) Officers located a crime scene; witnesses described two groups of people having been in an argument and a shooting followed.

No victims or suspects have been identified or have come forward at this point...and LBPD's investigation is ongoing.

Within a five day period (May 7-12), Long Beach has had eight shooting crime scenes (persons hit and no-persons hit): four in Central LB (dists. 1 + 2 + 6) between May 10-12 plus four in NLB (dists. 8 + 9) betwen May 7-11.

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. Area doesn't include NLB shootings. Map is unofficial.

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For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated shootings in the area Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017. Doesn't include NLB shootings.

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

Within a two day period -- May 10 and May 11 -- Central LB had three shooting crime scenes: in addition to the May 11, 9:50 p.m. shooting in the 900 block of Daisy Ave. there was a no-person-hit shooting in the 1000 block of Minerva Park (May 10, 2nd dist., LBREPORT.com coverage here) and a no-person-hit shooting in the 800 block Daisy Ave. (May 11, 3;25 p.m., rounds hit unoccupied vehicle and building, LBREPORT.com coverage here).

Of the most recent eight shooting crime-scenes, four are in NLB (2 in 8th dist, 2 in 9th dist.) and four are in Central LB (2 in 1st dist., 1 in 2nd dist., 1 in the 6th)

On May 11, the 9th dist. had two shootings within a little less than three hours: a triple-victim shooting on Andy St. (LBREPORT.com coverage here) and a person shot/wounded in the 200 block of E. Artesia Blvd. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.) A day earlier on May 10, a man was shot/wounded inside a business in the 4900 block of LB Blvd. (8th dist., LBREPORT.com coverage here.) And on May 7, a man was shot/wounded at Market St./Pine Ave. (8th district, LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

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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 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 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.

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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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