{"id":92076,"date":"2025-12-12T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92076\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:29:06","slug":"murder-suspect-arrested-weeks-after-shooting-death-of-39-year-old-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92076\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Suspect Arrested Weeks After Shooting Death Of 39-Year-Old In Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 An arrest has been made weeks after a 39-year-old man was fatally shot in Long Beach, police announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

Freddie Lamont Key Jr., 40<\/a>, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Wednesday in connection with the death of Dajuan Hunt, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the railroad right-of-way near the 5300 block of Cherry Avenue just before 10 p.m. Oct. 23, police said.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they found a man, later identified as Hunt, with a gunshot wound to his upper body, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers helped Hunt, then Long Beach Fire Department paramedics took him to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n

An investigation led detectives to identify Key as a suspect in Hunt\u2019s killing, police said, adding that a motive for the shooting is ongoing. Both men were homeless, according to police.<\/p>\n

Police said detectives presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which will determine if criminal charges will be filed.<\/p>\n

Key is being held on $2 million bail and was scheduled to appear in court Friday morning, jail records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 An arrest has been made weeks after a 39-year-old man was fatally shot in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-92076","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\/92076","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=92076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}