{"id":9010,"date":"2025-10-17T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/9010\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:00:06","slug":"police-arrest-man-accused-of-fatally-shooting-36-year-old-in-long-beach-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/9010\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man accused of fatally shooting 36-year-old in Long Beach \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested a man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2025\/10\/12\/man-fatally-shot-in-long-beach-6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally shooting<\/a> a 36-year-old man in Long Beach, officials announced Thursday, Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Garcia-Linares, 25, was arrested on suspicion of murder about a mile from the scene of the shooting on Oct. 12, according to the Long Beach Police Department. He is being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded just before 1:30 a.m. to the 200 block of Falcon Avenue, where they found Thomas Mello with a gunshot wound to his upper body. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Police haven\u2019t released further details of what led up to the shooting or a potential motive in the case. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at 562-570-7244 or leave an anonymous tip at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrested a man accused of fatally shooting a 36-year-old man in Long Beach, officials announced Thursday, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-9010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","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=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}