{"id":143270,"date":"2026-01-21T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:15:08","slug":"driver-injured-after-being-shot-near-405-freeway-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143270\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Injured After Being Shot Near 405 Freeway In Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The California Highway Patrol Wednesday is investigating a shooting near the San Diego (405) Freeway where one person was wounded and the alleged shooter is on the loose.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was reported just before 9 p.m. Tuesday near the southbound freeway and Lakewood Boulevard, CHP Officer Sergio Garcia told City News Service.<\/p>\n<p>The victim discovered they had been shot while driving. The name, age or gender of the victim were not immediately released, and they were taken to a hospital in an unknown condition.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said the suspect was driving a black Jeep Cherokee.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP closed the southbound freeway briefly while officers investigated the circumstances surrounding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if the shooting occurred on or near the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The California Highway Patrol Wednesday is investigating a shooting near the San Diego (405)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-143270","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\/143270","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=143270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}