LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A student was injured in a shooting near a Long Beach high school Thursday morning, school officials say.<\/p>\n
A Poly High School student was involved in an off-campus shooting near Long Beach Boulevard and 17th Street at about 8:18 a.m., a Long Beach Unified spokesperson said in a written statement to Patch.<\/p>\n
Once the student arrived at school, staff provided the student with medical attention and called emergency responders, the spokesperson said, adding that staff also contacted the student’s parents.<\/p>\n
First responders transported the student to a hospital, according to the spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Long Beach police said officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 1700 block of Long Beach Boulevard about 8:25 a.m. and found evidence of a shooting but no victim. <\/p>\n
Officers were later notified that a 15-year-old boy was being treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his lower body, according to police. The suspect fled before officers arrived, police said.<\/p>\n
“The incident occurred off campus, and the school remains safe,” the spokesperson said. “LBUSD School Safety is maintaining an increased presence on campus as a precaution. Our thoughts are with the student and his family as they focus on recovery.”<\/p>\n
Long Beach police are investigating the incident, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A student was injured in a shooting near a Long Beach high school Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-125964","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\/125964","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=125964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}