Pedestrian Says He Was Shot In Drive-By Area PCH/Locust (Border 1st/6th Districts); PD Says Gang Related

+ Pedestrian Says He Was Shot In Drive-By Area PCH/Locust (Border 1st/6th Districts); PD Says Gang Related

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(Nov. 9, 2020, 11:45 a,m.) -- LBPD says a man (adult) was walking near the area of PCH/Locust (a few blocks west of Poly High) on Sunday night when he says a silver vehicle pulled up alongside him and a man (adult) shot at him and fled the area.

LBPD PIO Brandon Fahey says officers spoke with the victim at a local hospital, couldn't find evidence of a shooting at the location he indicated but detectives believe it was gang related.

The gunfire along the 1st/6th Council district border comes after three people were shot/wounded on Nov. 5 in the 700 block of Chestnut Ave. (1st dist.) and a few houea later rounds struck an unoccupied vehicle about a mile east in the 700 block of Olive Ave. (1st dist.) near St. Anthony Church.

In Sept. 2020, the City Council voted to defund 48 sworn police officers (on top of 180+ defunded in budgets from 2009-2014) and not restored despite LB voters' passage of the 2016 "Measure A" sales tax increase. The officers defunded in FY 13 and not restored include LBPD's former 22-member field anti-gang unit. (LBREPORT.com detailed coverage here.)

An LBPD Commander recently told LBREPORT.com that recent shooting do NOT indicate Long Beach is having a gang war." (Recent shootings in Central LB and parts of NLB reported by LBREPORT.com here, here, here, here, here and here)

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