{"id":94154,"date":"2025-12-14T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/94154\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:05:06","slug":"man-arrested-in-october-killing-in-long-beach-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/94154\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in October killing in Long Beach \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH \u2014 A 40-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in Long Beach in late October has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2025\/10\/26\/man-dies-after-shooting-in-long-beach-on-thursday-police-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Key is suspected in the Oct. 23 fatal shooting of 39-year-old\u00a0Dajuan\u00a0Hunt<\/a>, 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<p>Police said Hunt sustained a gunshot wound to the upper body. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what led investigators to identify Key as the suspect. Key and Hunt were both homeless.<\/p>\n<p>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":"LONG BEACH \u2014 A 40-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in Long Beach in late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,138,969,134,131,133,132,137,100,135,136],"class_list":["post-94154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-homeless","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\/94154","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=94154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}