Long Beach police are now investigating the death of a 73-year-old man during a robbery in April as a homicide, they said in a news release on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident happened at around 9:40 p.m. on April 20, 2025, when police were called to the 800 block of Elm Avenue for reports of a robbery in the area, LBPD’s release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officers say that the victim, 73-year-old Long Beach man Jose Eduardo Viveros, was attempting to enter his home when he was attacked by a group of men and robbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Viveros was hospitalized with severe injuries suffered during the incident, where he remained until he died on September 17, nearly five months after the assault, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner notified LBPD detectives on December 23 that Vivero’s death was ruled a homicide due to the blunt force trauma he sustained during the incident. This prompted them to launch a homicide investigation, despite the incident having happened nearly eight months ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Detectives described three of the four suspects as male and one as a female adult. Police believe they remained in the area after the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone who knows more was asked to contact LBPD’s Homicide detectives at (562) 570-7244.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police are now investigating the death of a 73-year-old man during a robbery in April as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-114525","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\/114525","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=114525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}