An alleged ex-con suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in Long Beach in late October was charged Friday with murder.<\/p>\n
Freddie Lamont Key Jr., 40, was arrested Wednesday by Special Investigations Division detectives in the 2600 block of South Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Key was initially booked on suspicion of an outstanding warrant and then re-booked on suspicion of murder, police said.<\/p>\n
The case stems from the Oct. 23 killing 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 police, who said both men were homeless.<\/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.<\/p>\n
The murder count includes allegations that Key personally used and intentionally discharged a firearm, committed the crime while on parole and has four prior felony convictions dating back to 2003 for crimes including assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged ex-con suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in Long Beach in late October was charged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,10753,158,131,133,132,135],"class_list":["post-92492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-charged","tag-deadly","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92492","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=92492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}