A 45-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a 48-year-old woman in Long Beach has been taken into custody, police announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Officers were sent to the 1400 block of Redondo Avenue around 3 a.m. Tuesday regarding a death investigation, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
They located a woman who sustained a gunshot wound, prompting the response of Long Beach Fire Department personnel, who pronounced the woman dead at the scene. She was later identified as Suzette Aparijo of Hawaiian Gardens.<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives arrived at the location and determined Juan Antonio Cruz of Long Beach was the suspected shooter following an investigation, police said.<\/p>\n
Cruz was arrested and booked at the Long Beach City Jail on suspicion of murder. He was being held on $2 million bail.<\/p>\n
Detectives concluded during their investigation that Cruz and Aparijo were in a dating relationship, but the motive behind the shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
Police said the case is expected to be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office for formal filing consideration.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the fatal shooting was urged to contact LBPD homicide detectives at 562-570-7244. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a 48-year-old woman in Long Beach has been taken into custody,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2040,174,1491,131,133,132,135,1557],"class_list":["post-431293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-arrested","tag-beach","tag-fatal","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-shooting","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431293","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=431293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431293\/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=431293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}