{"id":340275,"date":"2026-05-31T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340275\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:41:14","slug":"victim-and-killer-in-north-long-beach-shooting-were-both-15-police-say-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340275\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim and killer in North Long Beach shooting were both 15, police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of killing another 15-year-old boy in an afternoon shooting that sparked a pair of SWAT searches in North Long Beach earlier this week, police said today.<\/p>\n

The shooting occurred around 12:30 p.m. Thursday near Cedar Avenue and Plymouth Street.<\/p>\n

A neighbor told the Long Beach Post<\/a> he heard a single gunshot and went outside to see the victim lying in the street. He was taken by paramedics to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Believing the shooter could still be nearby, SWAT teams twice scoured the neighborhood but came up empty. Police said homicide detectives \u201cquickly identified the suspect as a 15-year-old male resident of Long Beach\u201d and made a plan to arrest him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am deeply troubled by the killing of a 15-year-old and it is extremely alarming that the suspect believed responsible is also 15 years old,\u201d said LBPD Chief Wally Hebeish. \u201cThe Long Beach Police Department will never allow youth violence to be normalized in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy, whom police did not identify because he\u2019s a juvenile, was arrested in Lakewood on Friday and booked into Long Beach Jail on suspicion of murder and being a minor in possession of a firearm. He was then taken to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, where he was being held without bail, police said.<\/p>\n

Police said the motive \u201cremains under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victim has not been publicly identified.<\/p>\n

City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he\u2019s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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