A 40-year-old homeless man suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in late October was behind bars today.<\/p>\n
Freddie Lamont Key Jr. was arrested Wednesday by 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 bail, 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 on the northern edge of the Bixby Knolls neighborhood, according to the LBPD.<\/p>\n
Police said Hunt was shot in 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, police said. They did not disclose a motive.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information 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 homeless man suspected of fatally shooting another homeless man in late October was behind bars today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-94516","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\/94516","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=94516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}