{"id":200763,"date":"2026-03-02T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200763\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:14:16","slug":"fatal-long-beach-shooting-wasnt-related-to-marathon-burger-rep-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200763\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Long Beach Shooting ‘Wasn’t Related’ to Marathon Burger, Rep Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

An investigation remains ongoing following a fatal shooting<\/a> in Long Beach<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

While initial coverage of the shooting on Sunday (March 1) made a point to mention the nearby grand opening of a Marathon Burger location in the city, a restaurant rep has since spoken out to offer some clarity on the situation.<\/p>\n

“It wasn\u2019t related to the restaurant at all,” a rep for the Nipsey Hussle<\/a>-honoring restaurant, which has multiple locations in California, is reported to have told<\/a> regional outlet KTTV. “People were eating ice cream and playing basketball games.”<\/p>\n

Complex has reached out to Marathon Burger for additional comment.<\/p>\n

The Long Beach location of Marathon Burger (located at 245 Pine Avenue) held its grand opening celebration on Sunday, complete with appearances by Snoop Dogg<\/a> and Stevie Wonder<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Ahead of the Long Beach grand opening, Nipsey, who was fatally shot outside his Marathon Clothing store in 2019, was honored with the renaming of a South Los Angeles intersection. The corner of Crenshaw and Slauson is now known as Nipsey Hussle Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When reached for comment by Complex on Monday (March 2) about this weekend\u2019s deadly shooting, a Long Beach Police Department rep confirmed that three victims were taken to a nearby hospital in connection with a shooting that took place on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Per the department\u2019s initial statement, officers responded to the 200 block of Pine Avenue just after 3:30 p.m. local time. Of the three reported victims, police say one of them has died.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe motive and circumstances of the shooting, as well as suspect information, remain under investigation,\u201d a police rep told Complex, adding that there are \u201cno suspects in custody\u201d at this time.<\/p>\n

Complex has also reached out to the office of Rex Richardson, Long Beach mayor, for additional comment. This story may be updated.<\/p>\n

Footage of Sunday\u2019s shooting, seen above, showed a crowd dispersing upon the sound of gunshots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation remains ongoing following a fatal shooting in Long Beach this weekend. While initial coverage of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-200763","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\/200763","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=200763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}