{"id":146590,"date":"2026-01-23T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:52:08","slug":"2-arrested-after-man-found-fatally-shot-in-pickup-truck-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146590\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Arrested After Man Found Fatally Shot In Pickup Truck In Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Two men have been arrested after the sound of gunfire led officers to a man fatally shot inside a pickup truck in Long Beach on Sunday, police announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/murder-investigation--1600-block-of-gaviota-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Through an investigation<\/a>, detectives identified Maliek Dontell James-Morrow, 29, of Long Beach, and Buon Henry Um, 29, of Long Beach, as suspects in the death of David Alfaro, the Long Beach Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>The men were each booked into jail on a count of murder and are each being held on $2 million bail, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers patrolling the area heard multiple gunshots just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, police 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, later identified as 33-year-old Alfaro, with a gunshot wound, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers with the Long Beach Fire Department took Alfaro to a hospital, where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigation shows Alfaro was inside the pickup truck when he was shot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The men are scheduled to appear in court Feb. 5, jail records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Two men have been arrested after the sound of gunfire led officers to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-146590","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\/146590","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=146590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}