{"id":59290,"date":"2025-11-18T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:49:06","slug":"16-year-old-boy-hospitalized-after-being-shot-near-high-school-in-long-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59290\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old boy hospitalized after being shot near high school in Long Beach, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized after being shot Tuesday morning near a high school campus in Long Beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded about 10:30 a.m. to a report of a shooting in the 500 block of New York Street, about three blocks from the campus of Long Beach Polytechnic High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Upon arrival, officers contacted a 16-year-old male victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the lower body,&#8221; the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Long Beach Fire Department personnel transported the injured boy to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A preliminary investigation indicated that a man approached a group of male juveniles and brandished a firearm, said Officer Eric Stachura, a police spokesman. The suspect fired shots toward the group, striking the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect fled the scene before officers arrived, Stachura said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A description of the gunman was not available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized after being shot Tuesday morning near a high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[36132,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-59290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-36132","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\/59290","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=59290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}