An investigation was underway Monday after two men with gunshot wounds showed up at a hospital in Long Beach, where one of them was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Officers responded about 4:20 p.m. Saturday to a report of shots fired in the 1000 block of Myrtle Avenue, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon arrival, officers located evidence a shooting had occurred,\u201d according to a police statement. \u201cThe suspect(s) fled the scene before officers arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n
While they were at the location, officers learned that two men with gunshot wounds had arrived at nearby hospitals.<\/p>\n
One of the men had non-life-threatening injuries, but the other one did not make it and was pronounced dead by medical staff, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHomicide detectives responded to the scene and are working to determine if both shooting victims are related to the shooting in the 1000 block of Myrtle Avenue,\u201d according to the LBPD. \u201cAt this time, suspect information, circumstances of the shooting and motive remain under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dead man\u2019s identity was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information that might help investigators was urged to contact LBPD homicide detectives Jared Asato and Ethan Shear at 562-570-7244.<\/p>\n
Anonymous tips can be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers by calling 800-222-TIPS (8477) by visiting the LA Crime Stoppers website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation was underway Monday after two men with gunshot wounds showed up at a hospital in Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,410,131,133,132,5250,411],"class_list":["post-396669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-fatally","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-shot","tag-wounded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396669","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=396669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}