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TENTH LB Shooting Crime Scene Within A Week: 3000 block Santa Fe; Suspect Opens Fire On Two Victims Seated In A Vehicle


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(May 15, 2019, 9:40 a.m.) -- In LB's TENTH shooting crime scene within a week (since May 14), someone opened fire on two men (adults) seated in a parked vehicle aloing Santa Fe Ave. just north of Spring St. (WLB, 7th Council district.)

LBPD Watch Commander Lt. Mike Richens tells LBREPORT.com that at about 5:40 p.m. Tuesday May 14, LBPD responded to a shots call in the 3000 block of Santa Fe Ave. and learned that someone fired shots at two men (adults) in the parked vehicle, fled and while the two men weren't hit by the rounds, they both had minor injuries.

Gang detectives responded; a motive for the shooting is unknown at this time and LBPD's investigation is ongoing.

Within the past seven days, LB has had TEN shooting crime scenes (persons hit plus no-persons-hit shootings): five in NLB (dists. 8 + 9), four in Central LB (dists. 1 + 2 + 6) and now one across the L.A. river (part of district 7.)


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 NLB shootings.


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.)

  • May 14: Shots fired at two men in parked vehicle, 3000 block Santa Fe (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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