{"id":199984,"date":"2026-03-02T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:08:11","slug":"shooting-near-long-beach-grand-opening-of-marathon-burger-leaves-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199984\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting near Long Beach grand opening of Marathon Burger leaves one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach police are investigating a shooting with multiple victims, at least one of whom died, on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the 200 block of Pine Avenue, near the Pine Square shopping center, at around 3:30 p.m. after learning of a shooting, according to a spokesperson for the Long Beach Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot-2026-03-01-170453.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-03-01-170453.png \" height=\"318\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Long Beach police outside of a parking garage where a shooting happened on Sunday, March 1, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS LA<\/p>\n<p>The incident involves &#8220;multiple victims,&#8221; police said. They did not provide exact details on how many victims or suspects were potentially involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an ongoing investigation, and updates will be provided as they become available,&#8221; Long Beach police noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SkyCal flew over the spot of the incident, where there were multiple offers gathered outside of a parking garage in the area. There was medical waste on the ground outside of the garage, which was blocked by police tape.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marathonburger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marathon Burger<\/a> was holding a grand opening for its newest location. A large crowd was gathered outside the restaurant, where food was being served from a large shade covering. A spokesperson for the burger joint, which was founded by the brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/los-angeles-intersection-nipsey-hussle\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">late rapper Nipsey Hussle<\/a>, said that Snoop Dogg and Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson were also in attendance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opening was a huge success with strong community support,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;There was an incident nearby, but it was not connected to the event. The opening itself proceeded safely and without issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot-2026-03-01-184032.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-03-01-184032.png \" height=\"350\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The crowd outside of a Marathon Burger grand opening in Long Beach on March 1, 2026. A line of Long Beach Police Department officers can be seen nearby after a shooting happened less than a block away.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS LA<\/p>\n<p>Via aerial footage, a long line of Long Beach police were seen standing near the crowd gathered at the restaurant event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police are investigating a shooting with multiple victims, at least one of whom died, on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-199984","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\/199984","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=199984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}