{"id":75890,"date":"2025-11-30T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75890\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:27:07","slug":"brothers-argue-fatal-shooting-erupts-in-lakewood-on-thanksgiving-officials-say-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75890\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothers argue, fatal shooting erupts in Lakewood on Thanksgiving, officials say \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two brothers were in a loud argument in a pickup truck stopped at a Lakewood intersection on Thanksgiving afternoon when gunfire erupted \u2014 with one dying and the other running away before quickly getting caught, authorities said.<\/p>\n

A 50-year-old man died, while his 48-year-old brother, Antonio Ruiz Jr. of Lawndale, was arrested on suspicion of murder, sheriff\u2019s Lt. Michael Modica said on Friday, Nov. 28.<\/p>\n

Deputies had responded around 2:40 p.m. to Lakewood Boulevard and South Street, south of the 91 Freeway.<\/p>\n

The driver, with the gunshot wound, was found near a vehicle and taken to a hospital, where he died. His identity was not released by authorities pending notification of his relatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspect exited the car from the turn lane and deputies were quick to respond,\u201d Modica said. \u201cHe got maybe a block and a half (away).\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputies had to use force to take him into custody, though it was unclear what less-lethal munitions were used.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestigators learned both the suspect and victim were inside of the vehicle arguing when a shooting occurred,\u201d a sheriff\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n

The truck was stopped and waiting to turn left onto eastbound South from southbound Lakewood when the suspect fired \u201cmore than one\u201d shot, Modica said.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The argument) could be heard from people \u2026 in the adjacent lanes and the gunshots occurred in the car,\u201d Modica said.<\/p>\n

The arrested brother was being held on $2 million bail.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two brothers were in a loud argument in a pickup truck stopped at a Lakewood intersection on Thanksgiving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,134,131,133,132,137,100,135,136],"class_list":["post-75890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-homicide","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75890","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=75890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}