It's the second LB shooting on Mother's Day May 12, coming less than 12 hours after a no-person-hit shooting in Central LB's Poly High area (LBREPORT.com coverage here.) It's the NINTH LB shooting since May 7 (details below.)

LBPD Public Information Officer Shaunna Dandoy tells LBREPORT.com that at about 10:15 p.m. on May 12, officers on routine patrol near 49th/LB Blvd. heard gunfire [!] and located evidence of the shooting on a sidewalk in the 4900 block of LB Blvd.

Investigating detectives do NOT believe the May 12 shooting is related to a shooting (that LBPD has said is being investigated as gang related) that occurred on May 10 inside a business in the 4900 block of LB Blvd.

LBPD says its gang detectives are investigating the May 12 shooting along with eight other shooting crime scenes in NLB and Central LB since May 7.

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

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 Central LB 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 Central LB area shootings.

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

In the most recent LB shootings:

• May 7: Man shot/wounded at Market St./Pine Ave. (8th district, LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

• May 10: no-person-hit shooting, 1000 block of Minerva Park (2nd dist., LBREPORT.com coverage here)

• May 10: Man shot/wounded inside a business in the 4900 block of LB Blvd. (8th dist., LBREPORT.com coverage here)

• May 11, no-person-hit shooting in the 800 block Daisy Ave. (rounds hit unoccupied vehicle and building, LBREPORT.com coverage here).

• May 11, man shot/wounded in 900 block of Daisy Ave. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.) ,p>
• May 11: Triple-victim shooting on Andy St. (LBREPORT.com coverage here)

• May 11: Person shot/wounded in the 200 block of E. Artesia Blvd. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

• May 12: 600 block E. Esther (Poly High Area), casings found, no person(s) hit; LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

• May 12: Shots fired at bicycle rider, 4900 block LB Blvd. (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 (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 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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