{"id":141778,"date":"2026-01-20T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141778\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:27:11","slug":"man-found-fatally-shot-in-pickup-truck-after-officers-hear-gunfire-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141778\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Found Fatally Shot In Pickup Truck After Officers Hear Gunfire In Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A murder investigation is underway after the sound of gunfire led officers to a man fatally shot inside a pickup truck in Long Beach, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers patrolling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/murder-investigation--1600-block-of-gaviota-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">area heard multiple gunshots<\/a> just before 2 a.m., the Long Beach Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the 1600 block of Gaviota Avenue, they searched the area and noticed a white pickup truck crashed into a light pole, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers looked inside the pickup truck and saw a man with a gunshot wound, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers with the Long Beach Fire Department took the man to a hospital, where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigation shows the man was inside the pickup truck when he was shot, police said, adding that they are trying to determine suspect information and a motive.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s identity will not be released until the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner has contacted his next of kin, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Detectives Oscar Valenzuela and Jesus Espinoza at 562-570-7244.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A murder investigation is underway after the sound of gunfire led officers to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-141778","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\/141778","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=141778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}