A 40-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in Long Beach in late October was behind bars Thursday.<\/p>\n
Freddie Lamont Key Jr. was arrested Wednesday by Special Investigations Division detectives in the 2600 block of South Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
He was initially booked on suspicion of an outstanding warrant and then rebooked on suspicion of murder. He was being held in lieu of $2 million bond, police said.<\/p>\n
Key is suspected in the Oct. 23 fatal shooting of 39-year-old Dajuan Hunt, who was found around 9:45 p.m. Oct. 23 in the 5300 block of Cherry Avenue, near a railroad right-of-way, according to the LBPD.<\/p>\n
Police said Hunt sustained a gunshot wound to the upper body. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what led investigators to identify Key as the suspect. Key and Hunt were both homeless.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the fatal shooting was urged to contact homicide detectives Leticia Gamboa and Jared Asato at 562-570-7244. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in Long Beach in late October was behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,8901,1491,131,133,132,1555,135,22713,33729],"class_list":["post-91021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-custody","tag-fatal","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-man","tag-shooting","tag-suspected","tag-taken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91021","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=91021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}