Police are looking for a gunman who left a man wounded on a Central Long Beach street early Monday morning, according to authorities.

The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. on Long Beach Boulevard near 14th Street, Long Beach police spokeswoman Nancy Pratt said.

When officers arrived, they found a man in the street who’d been shot in the upper body, according to Pratt. Paramedics took him to the hospital in stable condition, she said.

The gunman fled on foot before officers got there, according to Pratt. A description of the shooter wasn’t immediately available, and police are still trying to determine what sparked the shooting.

Police asked that anyone with information contact Det. Chris Valdez at 562-570-7370. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS or visiting lacrimestoppers.org.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.