{"id":246894,"date":"2026-04-01T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:19:11","slug":"man-stabbed-near-metro-rail-station-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246894\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed near Metro rail station in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was hospitalized after being stabbed near a Metro A Line station in Long Beach Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to the area of Pacific Avenue and 5th Street after receiving the stabbing report around 5 a.m., a Long Beach Police Department spokesperson confirmed to KTLA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was found at the scene with stab wounds to his upper body, according to the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/long-beach-stabbing-metro-blue-line.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Man stabbed near Metro Blue Line station in Long Beach\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b6f6623f90679230dda0938162d8f05b.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A man was stabbed in the upper body near a Metro A Line station in Long Beach on April 1, 2026. (KTLA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital in unknown condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sky5 was over the scene shortly after 7 a.m., where a train could be seen stopped at the Metro station. The northbound lanes on Pacific Avenue were closed between 4th and 5th streets during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No suspect description or motive for the stabbing was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was hospitalized after being stabbed near a Metro A Line station in Long Beach Wednesday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4407,131,133,132,867,25654,104053,24299],"class_list":{"0":"post-246894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-ktla","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-news","12":"tag-long-beach-police-department","13":"tag-metro-station","14":"tag-pacific-avenue","15":"tag-stab-wounds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246894","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=246894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}