{"id":433231,"date":"2026-08-14T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433231\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:24:16","slug":"murder-investigation-and-arrest-redondo-ave-lb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433231\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Investigation and Arrest &#8211; Redondo Ave. LB &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/crime-prison-e1712783018622.png?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"465\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image cwvlazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786749856_693_crime-prison-e1712783018622.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"crime-prison\"\/><\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH \u2014 The Long Beach Police Department has arrested a suspect for the murder of a female adult, following an Aug. 11, incident that occurred in the 1400 block of Redondo Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 11, about 3:06 a.m., officers responded to the 1400 block of Redondo Avenue regarding a death investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers located a female adult with a gunshot wound. Long Beach Fire Department personnel responded and determined the victim deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as Suzette Aparijo, a 48-year-old resident of Hawaiian Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives responded to the scene. Through their investigation, detectives determined a male adult suspect was responsible for Aparijo\u2019s death. The suspect was identified as Juan Antonio Cruz, a 45-year-old resident of Long Beach. Cruz was arrested and booked at the Long Beach City Jail for murder. Bail was set at $2,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives determined Cruz and Aparijo were in a dating relationship. The motive and circumstances remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives will present the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s office for filing consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information\u202fregarding this incident is urged to contact homicide detectives Thai and Contreras at 562 570-7244 or anonymously at 800-222-8477; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacrimestoppers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 LONG BEACH \u2014 The Long Beach Police Department has arrested a suspect for the murder of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[40482,237,348,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-433231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-longbeach","tag-arrest","tag-investigation","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\/433231","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=433231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}