{"id":167449,"date":"2026-02-07T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/167449\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:23:07","slug":"two-suspects-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murdering-homeless-man-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/167449\/","title":{"rendered":"Two suspects arrested on suspicion of murdering homeless man \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say they have arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of killing a 32-year-old homeless man last month near a railroad track in North Long Beach.<\/p>\n

The fatal shooting<\/a> happened at about 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, where railroad tracks cross Artesia Boulevard between Cherry Avenue and Paramount Boulevard, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n

Officers responding to the scene that day found a man, later identified as 32-year-old Steven Vejar, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, detectives arrested two men on Linden Avenue near 55th Street on suspicion of carrying out the fatal shooting. They are 50-year-old Josh Porras and 41-year-old Maria Gomez Gallegos, both of Long Beach, police said.<\/p>\n

Police did not disclose a suspected motive for the killing, nor if the suspected shooters knew the victim.<\/p>\n

They were each booked into jail on suspicion of murder and were each being held on $2 million bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they have arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of killing a 32-year-old homeless man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-167449","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\/167449","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=167449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}