A homeless suspect who allegedly assaulted a man in Long Beach, leaving him in critical condition, was in custody Wednesday in lieu of $2 million bail after the victim\u2019s death a month after being attacked.<\/p>\n
Zetty Jerome Welch, 49, had been originally booked and charged with felony counts of assault and battery causing serious bodily injury in connection with the attack that occurred around 8:20 p.m. Aug. 1 in the 1800 block of Long Beach Boulevard, according to the Long Beach Police Department. Officers responded to the area to investigate a report of a man with a gun and found the victim, who was taken to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Welch was arrested that day, according to jail records.<\/p>\n
On Monday, LPBD homicide detectives were informed that the victim had died and Welch was booked on suspicion of murder. Court records indicate Welch has now been charged with murder.<\/p>\n
He is due back in court Sept. 21 in Long Beach for a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n
The decedent\u2019s identity was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
Welch was being held at the Pitchess Detention Center North in Castaic, now in lieu of $2 million bail, according to online Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department inmate records.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the case was urged to contact homicide detectives Eric Thai or Chasen Contreras at 562-570-7244. Anonymous tips can be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers by calling 800-222-TIPS (8477) or by visiting www.lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeless suspect who allegedly assaulted a man in Long Beach, leaving him in critical condition, was in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[178406,174,30019,18278,12146,11834,131,133,132,3906,2601],"class_list":["post-451299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-assaulted","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-critically","tag-dies","tag-injured","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-month","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451299","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=451299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}