The death of a 73-year-old man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury during an April robbery is now being investigated as a homicide, police said today.<\/p>\n
Police said the attack happened around 9:40 p.m. on April 20. That\u2019s when a robbery was reported in the 800 block of Elm Avenue, according to the Long Beach PoliceDepartment.<\/p>\n
The victim, identified as Jose Eduardo Viveros of Long Beach, was attempting to enter his home when he was assaulted and robbed by a group of suspects, police said.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a hospital by Long Beach Fire Department personnel with severe injuries. Viveros remained hospitalized and died nearly five months later, on Sept. 17, police said.<\/p>\n
On Dec. 23, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner notified detectives that Viveros\u2019 death was ruled a homicide due to blunt force trauma sustained during the assault, prompting a homicide investigation, according to police.<\/p>\n
The suspects were described as three or four males and possibly one female adult, who were believed to have remained in the area following the attack, police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the case was asked to contact Homicide Detectives Ethan Shear or Kelsey Myers at 562-570-7244. Anonymous tips may be submitted through Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of a 73-year-old man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury during an April robbery is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-114315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}