After a crime surge, LBPD flooded the zone on gun enforcement. Is it working?
Shootings were up 145% over the first three months of 2021 compared to the previous year, according to police data.
1 injured, vehicles damaged in Sunday morning shootings
In a separate shooting in Central Long Beach less than an hour earlier, a parked and unoccupied vehicle was struck will bullets.
One shot, one arrested in string of overnight shootings, police say
Authorities are investigating three separate shootings in Long Beach Saturday evening and into Sunday morning, including one in which a person was hospitalized with gunshot wounds, police said.
String of overnight shootings leaves 3 wounded in Long Beach
Police are investigating these three separate shootings and say that they believe they are unrelated to each other.
Data: gun violence across Long Beach has spiked, reaching its worst level in years
With a total of 381 shootings across the city, there were significantly more in 2020 than the previous four years, which had an annual average of 232 shootings.
Police investigate 2 overnight shootings; bullets graze 1 victim, strike 1 structure
Police are investigating two separate shootings on Saturday, leaving one man shot at one scene, a building struck in the other and little information on the suspected shooters in both cases, according to authorities.
Woman struck by gunfire while getting out of her car, police say
A woman was shot while getting out of her car Friday night and a man said he was shot in Long Beach, the LBPD said.
3 wounded, 1 killed in string of 5 shootings over last 24 hours, Long Beach police say
The separate attacks began around 2:40 p.m., Friday when a 25-year-old man was killed in an alley near 14th Street and Elm Avenue, police said.
Suspect arrested after argument escalates into shooting, leaving 1 injured
An argument between the suspect and her partner escalated to a shooting with gunfire striking a man and a nearby residence.
Police search for suspects in two shootings that injured 3 men
Long Beach police were investigating two separate shootings Friday evening that left three men injured.