{"id":23187,"date":"2025-10-25T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/23187\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:10:08","slug":"fatal-shootings-continue-to-plague-long-beach-mayor-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/23187\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal shootings continue to plague Long Beach, mayor silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH \u2013 A man was shot to death Saturday morning in Long Beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers dispatched to a shooting call at about 1:40 a.m. Saturday in the 100 block of La Verne Avenue located a man dead at the scene, said Allison Gallagher, spokeswoman for the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomicide detectives responded to the scene,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cThe LBPD will have an increased police presence in the area through the weekend to engage with businesses and residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson has not addressed the near-daily fatal shootings and stabbings as the City prepares to host some events for the 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2013 A man was shot to death Saturday morning in Long Beach, authorities said. Officers dispatched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8528,6600,131,133,18201,132,15766],"class_list":{"0":"post-23187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-fatal-shooting","9":"tag-homicide-investigation","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-mayor","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-rex-richardson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23187","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=23187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}