LA Sheriff’s deputies shot in ambush attack sue ‘ghost gun’ kit maker
Two deputies badly wounded in an ambush shooting last year have sued a company for making the parts for a “ghost gun” used in the attack.
Two deputies badly wounded in an ambush shooting last year have sued a company for making the parts for a “ghost gun” used in the attack.
Three people, including a teenage boy, were injured after a string of shootings took place Friday night and early Saturday morning, Long Beach police said.
Shootings were up 145% over the first three months of 2021 compared to the previous year, according to police data.
In a separate shooting in Central Long Beach less than an hour earlier, a parked and unoccupied vehicle was struck will bullets.
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.
Police are investigating these three separate shootings and say that they believe they are unrelated to each other.
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 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.
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.
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.