A high school student was injured in an off-campus shooting Thursday in Long Beach, and police were investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
The student, who attends Long Beach Polytechnic High School, was shot about 8:15 a.m. at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and 17th Street, a Long Beach Unified School District spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
He arrived at the school shortly afterward and was taken to a hospital by emergency responders, according to the district.<\/p>\n
The school at 1600 Atlantic Ave. is two blocks from the shooting location.<\/p>\n
School staff rendered support and first aid to the student before he was transported.<\/p>\n
The extent of his injury was unclear.<\/p>\n
The school \u201cremains safe,\u201d with school security maintaining an increased campus presence as a precaution, according to the district.<\/p>\n
Long Beach police were investigating.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts are with the student and his family as they focus on recovery,\u201d according to a district statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high school student was injured in an off-campus shooting Thursday in Long Beach, and police were investigating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,1028,131,133,132,29323,4265,135,4574,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-125685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-beach","9":"tag-high","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-poly","14":"tag-school","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-student","17":"tag-wounded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125685","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=125685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}