{"id":451737,"date":"2026-09-03T03:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:06:12","slug":"man-dies-month-after-long-beach-assault-suspect-now-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451737\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies Month After Long Beach Assault, Suspect Now Charged With Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aug. 1 attack occurred in the 1800 block of Long Beach Boulevard, where officers responding to a report of a man with a gun found an adult male victim who appeared to have been assaulted, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. Police located 49-year-old Zetty Jerome Welch at the time of the incident and arrested him on suspicion of battery causing serious bodily injury. Welch was described by police as a person experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aug. 1 attack occurred in the 1800 block of Long Beach Boulevard, where officers responding to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-451737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","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\/451737","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=451737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}