LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Long Beach Police say they’re investigating the Wednesday morning stabbing of a man that temporarily disrupted service along a Metro light rail line.<\/p>\n
Also under investigation is a shooting that took place early Monday.<\/p>\n
In the shooting case, officers responded about 5 a.m. today to reports of a stabbing in the area of Pacific Avenue and Fifth Street, according to Long Beach Police Department public information officer Andrea Moran.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived and found the man with stab wounds to his upper body.<\/p>\n
“Long Beach Fire Department personnel responded and transported the victim to a local hospital,” Moran said. “The motive for the incident is unknown. The investigation is ongoing.”<\/p>\n
The stabbing disrupted service on the Metro ‘A’ light rail line, commonly known as the Blue Line.<\/p>\n
Reports from the scene showed a light rail train stopped at the
location, and Metro said bus shuttles are operating between the Pacific and Anaheim stations.<\/p>\n
In the shooting case, police are searching for possible suspects in the incident, which took place near the Upper Westside neighborhood and the Long Beach (710) Freeway.<\/p>\n
Police were called at about 12:32 a.m. Monday to the 2900 block of Gale Avenue, west of the freeway, regarding a shots-fired call.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived at the scene, they found evidence of a crime and that determined a “no-hit” shooting had occurred, police said.<\/p>\n
The suspect or suspects ran from the scene prior to their officers’ arrival, according to the LBPD.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Anonymous tips regarding these or any crimes can be submitted through “LA Crime Stoppers” by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), by downloading the “P3 TIPS” app to your smartphone (available at the Apple App store and Google Play), or by visiting www.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Long Beach Police say they’re investigating the Wednesday morning stabbing of a man that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-247380","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\/247380","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=247380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}