Long Beach police are investigating after a gunman opened fire on a group of people a few blocks away from Washington Middle School Monday night. The gunfire started around around 8 p.m. near 15th Street and Daisy Avenue, according to Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Pratt. That's when a gunman approached the group of men or boys and started shooting but apparently missed, she said. Nobody reported being wounded, according to Pratt. The gunman fled on foot before police arrived, she said. Investigators think the shooting may be gang-related, according to Pratt. Police couldn't immediately provide a description of the gunman.

A man was taken to the hospital and another man was arrested after an argument between the two led to a stabbing, according to police.

The attack happened around 9:20 p.m. Thursday, March 7, on Lime Avenue near 59th Street, Long Beach police spokesman Alvino Herrera said.

Police said the two men were in a house on that block when they started arguing and one stabbed the other with a knife.

The two men know each other, Herrera said, but police did not give any more information on their relationship or what the argument was about.

Medics took the victim to a local hospital to treat wounds that weren’t life-threatening, police said.

They arrested 40-year-old Robert Vergara, a Long Beach resident, according to Herrera.

Vergara was held in lieu of $40,000 bail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to jail records.

Jeremiah Dobruck is managing editor of the Long Beach Post. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.