{"id":139410,"date":"2026-01-18T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139410\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:10:07","slug":"long-beach-police-officers-hear-gunfire-find-man-shot-to-death-in-pickup-truck-department-says-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139410\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach police officers hear gunfire, find man shot to death in pickup truck, department says \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was fatally wounded this morning while inside his pickup truck in Long Beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers on patrol in the 1600 block of Gaviota Avenue, which is about a block south of Pacific Coast Highway, heard multiple gunshots at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, according to Officer Kimberly Krpan of the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>The driver had been shot, according to the LBPD.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics rushed the victim to a hospital, where he later died from his injuries,\u00a0Krpan said.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>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 this morning while inside his pickup truck in Long Beach, authorities said. Officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-139410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139410","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=139410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}