{"id":499789,"date":"2026-10-18T02:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499789\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:54:13","slug":"2-men-found-dead-in-long-beach-home-after-swat-standoff-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499789\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men found dead in Long Beach home after SWAT standoff \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police say a man barricaded inside a California Heights home opened fire on officers early this morning, prompting one officer to return fire. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found two men fatally shot inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives are now investigating exactly how their deaths unfolded and whether one of the fatal rounds came from an officer\u2019s gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standoff began shortly after 1:40 a.m., when a caller reported hearing two gunshots from inside a residence on Gardenia Avenue, near East 37th Street, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they arrived, officers talked to the suspected gunman, who was holed up inside a home and who threatened to shoot officers, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They retreated and requested SWAT to the scene, but the gunman opened fire, and one officer shot back, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No officers were injured in the exchange, but it remains unclear if the return fire struck the gunman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A SWAT team eventually breached the home and found the two men dead inside from gunshot wounds to the upper body, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their names and ages were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LBPD will be conducting \u201ca full and thorough multi-level review of the incident,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a man barricaded inside a California Heights home opened fire on officers early this morning, prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-499789","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\/499789","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=499789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}