An investigation continued Monday into an off-duty Long Beach police officer who fired shots at a trio of male suspects after they robbed him.<\/p>\n
The robbery occurred at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday near Bixby Road and Orange Avenue in Long Beach, according to the Long Beach Police Department. The exact location was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
The department reported that one suspect pointed what appeared to be a firearm at the officer while another robbed him. Investigators did not say what was taken from the officer, whose name was withheld.<\/p>\n
Police told City News Service the investigation was ongoing Monday afternoon, and no suspects had been taken into custody in connection with the robbery.<\/p>\n
No injuries have been reported from the officer\u2019s gunfire. The suspects fled the scene.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information was urged to contact Homicide detectives Hutchinson or Valenzuela at 562-570-7244. Anonymous tips may be submitted by calling 800-222-TIPS (8477), texting TIPLA followed by the tip to 274637 (CRIMES), or through L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation continued Monday into an off-duty Long Beach police officer who fired shots at a trio of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,85558,348,131,133,132,2322,2480,135,239],"class_list":["post-397475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-continues","tag-investigation","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-officer","tag-robbery","tag-shooting","tag-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397475","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=397475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}