LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of another 15-year-old boy last week in Long Beach, police said. <\/p>\n
The shooting happened around 12:32 p.m. May 28 near Cedar Avenue and Plymouth Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department. Officers responding to reports of a shooting found a male victim suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died. <\/p>\n
Long Beach homicide detectives identified a 15-year-old suspect during their investigation and arrested him May 29 in Lakewood, police said.<\/p>\n
The teen was booked at the Long Beach Jail on suspicion of murder and being a minor in possession of a firearm, police said. He was later transferred to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, where he was being held without bail.<\/p>\n
Police said the motive remained under investigation. <\/p>\n
The victim was identified as a 15-year-old boy, but his identity was withheld family notification. <\/p>\n
Detectives planned to present the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for filing consideration.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to contact Long Beach homicide detectives at 562-570-7244 or Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the fatal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-341582","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\/341582","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=341582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}