(May 31, 2019, updated 8:05 p.m.) -- LB has now had its 17th shooting crime scene since May 7.
At midday Friday (May 31), police say two males (ages not indicated) walked up to three men (adults) and opened fire in the 400 block of E. 17th St. (between LB Blvd. and Atlantic Ave., 1st Council dist.) In an unusual social network dispatch reporting the shooting, LBPD says that at about 1:15 p.m. May 31, officers responded to reports of shots heard in the 400 block of E. 17th St. (which is a little over block from Roosevelt Elemenary School and two blocks west of Poly High.) They learned one man was shot (and took himself to a hospital.) LBPD says the suspects and motive remain under investigation. The May 31 shooting crime scene is just two blocks from a Mother's Day (Sunday May 12) no-person-hit shooting in the 600 block of Esther St. (6th dist.) and comes less than 24 hours after a man was shot and killed on Thursday night May 30 in the 2300 block of Elm Ave. (6th dist., roughly a mile north of the May 31 shooting.)
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For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated shootings and stabbings in the area Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017
In a May 31, 2019 social network dispatch, LBPD states: [Facebook text] While this incident occurred in the area near a local school, there is no indication of a nexus. LBPD is determined to protect the safety and wellbeing of our local community, and in effort to ensure this safety, LBPD will continue increased patrols in the surrounding aras before, during and after school, and will have additional officers repsonding to calls for service. In the most recent other 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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