A man was fatally wounded Sunday morning while inside his pickup truck in Long Beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Officers on patrol in the 1900 block of Gaviota Avenue, a few blocks west of Cherry Avenue, heard multiple gunshots at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, according to Officer Kimberly Krpan of the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey scanned the area and saw a white pick-up truck that had collided with a light pole and an unoccupied parked car,\u201d Krpan said. \u201cOfficers approached the pick-up truck and discovered that the male adult driver had sustained a gunshot wound.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paramedics rushed the victim to a hospital, where he later died from his injuries, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe preliminary investigation indicates the victim was inside the vehicle when he was shot,\u201d she said. \u201cSuspect information and motive remain under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the shooting was urged to contact Long Beach police 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":"A man was fatally wounded Sunday morning while inside his pickup truck in Long Beach, authorities said. Officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,410,131,133,132,33175,6187,9942,411],"class_list":["post-139294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-fatally","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-pickup","tag-truck","tag-while","tag-wounded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139294","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=139294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139294\/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=139294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}