LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Police in Long Beach were searching for a suspected shooter after a teenager was shot just a few blocks away from a high school on Tuesday morning, authorities told Patch. <\/p>\n
At around 10:30 a.m., officers were sent to the 500 block of New York Street regarding a shooting. Arriving officers found a 16-year-old suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the lower body, Eric Stachura, an officer at the Long Beach Police Department, said.<\/p>\n
Long Beach fire officials took the teenager to the hospital, he said.<\/p>\n
Police say they believe an adult man approached a group of teenage boys before producing a firearm and firing shots toward the group. A 16-year-old was struck and the suspect fled the scene before officers arrived, Stachura said.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred in the area less than a mile from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which is located at 1600 Atlantic Ave.<\/p>\n
No other information was available as police continued their investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Police in Long Beach were searching for a suspected shooter after a teenager was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-59205","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\/59205","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=59205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}