{"id":453481,"date":"2026-09-04T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:56:11","slug":"man-found-dead-from-suspicious-injuries-in-north-long-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453481\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead from &#8216;suspicious injuries&#8217; in North Long Beach, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/lbwatchdog.com\/tag\/crime-public-safety\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime + Public Safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Kenneth Shannon, 33, was found in the 6500 block of Muriel Avenue Thursday morning, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/lbwatchdog.com\/author\/anthony-pignataro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788537370_115_Anthony_Pignataro_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Pignataro\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/COP-CAR_2248.jpg\" alt=\"Man found dead from 'suspicious injuries' in North Long Beach, police say\"\/><br \/>\n            File photo by Brandon Richardson<\/p>\n<p>                    Become a Watchdog today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-body\">\n                    Sign up to get the latest from Long Beach&#8217;s independent, journalist-owned newsroom in your email.\n                <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 or sign up with \u2014<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the death of a Long Beach man who was found with suspicious injuries in North Long Beach Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach police say the body of 33-year-old Kenneth Shannon was found in the 6500 block of Muriel Avenue around 8:27 a.m. He had &#8220;suspicious injuries and observed signs of foul play,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect or suspects had fled the scene prior to officers arriving, according to the LBPD.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect information, motive and the circumstances of the incident are all under investigation, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are asking anyone with information about the incident to call LBPD Homicide Detectives Shear and Myers at 562-570-7244.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddde\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Pignataro is an editor at Long Beach Watchdog. If this work is important to you, please consider thanking him.<\/p>\n<p>            We need your support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kg-signup-card-subheading\" style=\"color: #000000; margin-top:.5rem;\">Subcribe to the Watchdog today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; margin-top:1rem;\">The Long Beach Watchdog is owned by journalists, and paid for by readers like you. If independent, local reporting like the story you just read is important to you, support our work by becoming a subscriber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime + Public Safety Kenneth Shannon, 33, was found in the 6500 block of Muriel Avenue Thursday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-453481","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\/453481","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=453481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}