{"id":133936,"date":"2026-01-15T00:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:31:19","slug":"long-beach-police-ask-for-tips-in-fatal-shooting-last-summer-release-image-of-person-of-interest-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133936\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach police ask for tips in fatal shooting last summer; release image of person of interest \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH \u2014 Police sought the public\u2019s assistance Wednesday in locating a person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in Long Beach last summer.<\/p>\n

The shooting occurred<\/a> shortly before 8 p.m. June 27, 2025, in the 5400 block of Paramount Boulevard, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n

Responding officers found a man \u2014 later identified as Dajion Hunter, 34 \u2014 with a gunshot wound to his upper body. Long Beach Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Police said the killing may have stemmed from a robbery.<\/p>\n

Homicide detectives on Wednesday released surveillance video<\/a> taken moments before the shooting, showing a person walking in the area. The man has been named a person of interest police would like to interview.<\/p>\n

The person was described as a man between 20 and 30 years old, wearing a light blue or teal hat, a red shirt, a light-colored hooded sweater, blue jeans and black shoes.<\/p>\n

Police said detectives believe the man may have ties to the Northpointe Apartments in the 5400 block of Paramount Boulevard.<\/p>\n

Anyone with additional information regarding the fatal shooting was urged to contact LBPD Homicide detectives Michael Hubbard or Kelsey Myers at 562-570-7244. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2014 Police sought the public\u2019s assistance Wednesday in locating a person of interest in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,134,131,133,132,137,100,135,136],"class_list":["post-133936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-homicide","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133936","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=133936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}