Gunfire On Shoreline Dr. (Area Linden Ave South of Convention Ctr. Parking Lot) Strikes/Wounds Man, Narrowly Misses Teen With Him

+ Gunfire On Shoreline Dr. (Area Linden Ave South of Convention Ctr. Parking Lot) Strikes/Wounds Man, Narrowly Misses Teen With Him

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(Nov. 12, 2020, 5:45 a,m.) -- A man (adult) was shot/wounded and a male teen with him says he too was shot-at but not hit in the 500 block of E. Shoreline Dr. (roughly Linden Ave., south of the "Elephant Lot"/Covention Ctr surface parking lot.)

LBPD overnight Watch Commander Lt. Eric Hooker says (preliminary information) that on Nov. 11 at about 11 p.m. officers responded to the 500 block of E Shoreline Dr., found the man with a gunshot wound and a 16 year old male who said he'd been shot-at but was uninjured.

LBFD took the wounded man to a hospital in stable condition. There's no immediate suspect information and the motive is being investigated with the investigation ongoing.

On Sept. 19, gunfire flew a few blocks away at the "Pike" commercial center (area Shoreline Dr./Pine Ave.) with no persons hit.

On Aug. 9, in the Pike commercial area (midnight hour: Seaside Way/Cedar Ave.) a male juvenile was struck/wounded by gunfire.. By way of context, DTLB and adjacent Central LB areas have also had recent shootings.

On Nov. 5, three people were shot/wounded in the 700 block of Chestnut Ave. (1st dist.) and a few houes later rounds struck an unoccupied vehicle about a mile east in the 700 block of Olive Ave. (1st dist.) near St. Anthony Church.

On Nov. 8, a man (adult) walking near the area of PCH/Locust (a few blocks west of Poly High) says a silver vehicle pulled up alongside him and a man (adult) shot at him and fled the area. LBPD detectives believe the shooting was gang related.

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LBREPORT.com is unaware of any downtown or Central LB LB business or civic groups that publicly objected in City Council testimony to the Sept. 8 Council vote adopting a FY 21 City Hall budget (recommended by Mayor Robert Garcia) that defunded 48 additional police officers on top of 180+ officers erased in a 2009-2015 defunding. Among officers erased in the previous defunding (and not restored despite $60+ million annually from the 2016 Measure A sales tax increase) was LBPD's former field anti-gang unit (20 officers + 2 sergeants.).The net result has left Long Beach taxpaying residents and businesses with a significantly thinner per capita police level than surrounding cities provide.

Note: After LB's Mayor/Council Sept. 8, 2020 Council defunding, LB's ratio has fallen to roughly 1.5 sworn officers per thousand residents.

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