In TENTH NLB Shooting Since July -- Second Shooting Within 24 Hrs -- Man Is Shot/Wounded in 5500 block Myrtle Ave. (8th dist/Austin); It's FOURTH Shooting (Incl. No Person Hit Shootings) Since Sept. In Northern Part Of Austin's 8th Dist.

+ In TENTH NLB Shooting Since July -- Second Shooting Within 24 Hrs -- Man Is Shot/Wounded in 5500 block Myrtle Ave. (8th dist/Austin); It's FOURTH Shooting (Incl. No Person Hit Shootings) Since Sept. In Northern Part Of Austin's 8th Dist.

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(Oct. 4, 2020, 9:20 a.m.) -- A man (adult) was shot/wounded in the 1 a.m. hour today (Oct. 4) in the 5500 block of Myrtle Ave. (8th district/Austin.) It was NLB's TENTH shooting (incl. no person hit shootings) since July, and the second shooting within 24 hours. It's the FOURTH shooting in the northern part of Councilman Austin's 8th Council district (includes three no-person-hit shootings) since Sept.

This morning's crime scene is roughly two miles due south of a shooting less than 24 hours earlier in the 6700 block of Myrtle Ave. (9th dist/Richardson) and that was the SIXTH shooting since July along NLB's Artesia corridor.

LBPD Public Information Officer Juan Gomez tells LBREPORT.com that at about 1 a.m. on Oct. 4, officers responded to the 5900 block of LB Blvd. regarding a victim who said he was shot in the 5500 block of Myrtle Avenue. LBFD transported him to a hospital with "non-life-threatening" injuries, The suspect fled prior to officers arrival. LBPD asks anyone with information about what took plce to contact LBPD's Gang Investigation Section at (562) 570-7370.

NLB Councilmembers Austin and Richardson joined in a Sept. 8 Council FY21 budget vote (9-0) defunding 48 sworn officers on top of 180+ offiers not restored from 2009-2015 budget votes. Among officers not restored was LBPD's former field anti-gang unit (20 officers + 2 sergeants.)

Austin (backed by the LB Police Officers union and Mayor Garcia) is seeking a third term against Tunua Thrash-Ntuk (backed by organized labor displeased with some of Austin's Council votes); she is endorsed by Councilman Richardson. Reform ticket candidate Juan Ovalle came close to qualifying for the 8th district November runoff but finished a close third to Austin.

Neither incubent Austin nor challenger Thrash-Ntuk have publicly committed to agendize a City Council item tha would restore any specific number of officesrs for taxpayers by any date certain.

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