Long Beach police say they\u2019ve arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder for chasing down and shooting another 14-year-old boy.<\/p>\n
Police said the shooting happened shortly before 12:50 p.m. in North Long Beach on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 14-year-old victim was walking southbound on Locust Avenue near 53rd Street when the 14-year-old attacker approached him, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n
The victim tried to run away, but the other teen ran after him and shot him several times, police said. While the victim was bleeding, the shooter approached and pistol-whipped the victim before running off, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers hurried to the scene and found the wounded boy. They applied a tourniquet and chest seals before paramedics rushed him to a hospital in critical condition, according to the LBPD. As of Friday morning, he\u2019d improved to stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n
In a statement, LBPD Chief Wally Hebeish said the officers\u2019 \u201cheroic efforts undoubtedly saved this young man\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detectives identified the suspected shooter as a boy from Long Beach. On Monday, they arrested him in Lakewood along with 19-year-old Xavier Salas Jr. The 14-year-old boy\u2019s name wasn\u2019t disclosed because he is a minor.<\/p>\n
Salas was booked into jail on suspicion of attempted murder and being an accessory after the fact. Police said they believe he was a getaway driver after the shooting. He was being held on $75,000 bail.<\/p>\n
Police said both Salas and the shooter are gang-affiliated, but a motive for the crime is still under investigation.<\/p>\n
Hebeish called the shooting \u201cboth tragic and disheartening.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo child should ever be subjected to any form of violence, and no one should ever be involved in committing such a brazen and heartless act,\u201d Hebeish said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police say they\u2019ve arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder for chasing down and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-197421","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\/197421","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=197421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}