{"id":199098,"date":"2026-03-01T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:08:23","slug":"long-beach-police-arrest-two-teens-for-attempted-murder-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199098\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach police arrest two teens for attempted murder shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach police arrested two teenagers for shooting and wounding a 14-year-old boy last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the 5300 block of Elm Avenue at around 12:50 p.m. on Sunday after learning of a shooting in the area, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/lbpd-arrests-two-suspects-ages-14-and-19-for-attempted-murder-in-recent-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> from the Long Beach Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, they found a 14-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition, but is now said to be stable, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was handed to LBPD&#8217;s gang detectives, who determined that the victim was walking on Locust Avenue when he was approached by a suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim attempted to flee, but the suspect pursued him on foot and fired several shots, striking the victim,&#8221; the release said. &#8220;The suspect then approached and pistol-whipped the victim. The suspect fled the scene on foot prior to officers&#8217; arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were able to identify the suspect as a 14-year-old Long Beach resident, he was arrested the next day in Lakewood, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also arrested 19-year-old Long Beach resident Jian Xavier Salas for his &#8220;involvement&#8221; in the shooting. He was booked for attempted murder and accessory after the fact. As of Friday, his bail was set at $75,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case has been presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office for filing consideration.<\/p>\n<p>As they continue to investigate a motive in the shooting, LBPD detectives asked anyone who may know more to contact them at (562) 570-7130.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police arrested two teenagers for shooting and wounding a 14-year-old boy last weekend.\u00a0 Officers were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-199098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199098","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=199098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}