Police say they seized 30 guns — including 12 ghost guns — from the home of a 74-year-old Long Beach man who is suspected of shooting at a car during a road rage incident.
The shooting happened on Dec. 18, 2024, near the intersection of Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue in downtown, according to Long Beach police. They said the man got into a dispute with another driver that escalated into him firing multiple shots at the other vehicle. Both fled the scene before police arrived. No injuries were reported, but one of the bullets struck a nearby apartment building, police said.
On Friday, detectives arrested 74-year-old James William Higgins on Broadway near Orange Avenue on suspicion of carrying out the shooting.
Police said that after the arrest, detectives served a search warrant at his house on Ocean Boulevard just east of Alamitos Avenue and found 30 firearms inside, along with “a large quantity of ammunition.”
A dozen of the 30 guns were ghost guns, meaning they did not have a serial number, police said. A picture of the recovered weapons showed at least a half dozen rifles, two shotguns and 21 handguns.
Higgins was booked into jail on suspicion of shooting at an inhabited dwelling, assault with a firearm, four felony counts of manufacturing an assault weapon and eight misdemeanor counts of owning a firearm without a serial number.
He was being held on $250,000 bail.