One Day After 17th/Alamitos Double-Homicide, Shots Heard/Casings Found About A Quarter Mile West, Area PCH/Myrtle Across From Poly High (6th dist.)

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(November 21, 2018) -- LBREPORT.com has learned that one day after a man and woman in their 50s were fatally shot while driving in the area of 17th St./Alamitos Ave. (south of LBCC PCH campus), gunfire was heard, LBPD responded and found bullet casings in the area of PCH/Myrtle Ave. about a quarter mile west (one block west of MLK Ave., just north of Poly High, 6th Council district.)

LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt tells LBREPORT.com that on November 18 at about 10:15 p.m., officers were sent to the intersection of PCH/Myrtle Ave. regarding shots heard in the area. They found bullet casings, but no victims, suspects or witness at the scene.

As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, on November 18 at about 5:45 p.m., a man and woman in their 50's were shot and killed while driving in the 1300 block of E. 17th St. (between Alamitos and Gundry Aves.) LBPD is investigating the double-homicide as gang related.

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. Map is unofficial. A separate map (not shown here) shows shootings in NLB

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

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Other recent shootings:

Nov. 15 10th/Locust (1st dist.)
Nov. 11 Atlantic/Burnett (6th dist.)
Nov. 10 PCH/Henderson (border 1st/6th)
Nov. 10: 200 block Pacific (2nd dist. parked vehicle hit, rounds miss its two occupants)
Nov. 7: 20th/Pine (6th dist.)

LBREPORT.com has a continually updated chart on our front page (www.LBREPORT.com) showing cumulated shootings and fatal shootings by Council district.

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