{"id":256763,"date":"2026-04-08T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256763\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:53:09","slug":"man-dies-of-injuries-5-days-after-downtown-long-beach-stabbing-suspect-arrested-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256763\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies of injuries 5 days after downtown Long Beach stabbing, suspect arrested \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five days after he was stabbed in downtown Long Beach, a South Gate man died of his injuries, Long Beach police said.<\/p>\n<p>James Plummer, 72, of South Gate, was stabbed around 5 a.m. on April 1 in the 400 block of North Pacific Avenue, authorities said. The suspect fled before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, police arrested Cary Odell Singletary, 66, in the 1000 block of North Pacific Avenue, Long Beach police said.<\/p>\n<p>Singletary was initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Plummer died on Monday, April 6, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office now will consider filing murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>The case remains under investigation, police said, and no motive has been announced. Investigators do not believe the two men knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>Police ask anyone with information about the case to contact homicide detectives Eric Thai and Chasen Contreras at 562-570-7244.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five days after he was stabbed in downtown Long Beach, a South Gate man died of his injuries,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,4183,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-256763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-south-gate","17":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256763","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=256763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}