🌱 Deadly Failure To Yield Accident + Shooting Suspect Caught On Loma

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A deadly traffic accident may be the result of a failure to yield. Also, a shooter was arrested quickly on Loma Avenue. Finally, there was a brush fire on the 405.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and not as warm. High: 78 Low: 64.

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Here are the top five stories today in Long Beach:

1. There was a deadly traffic accident Saturday evening at around 10:20 p.m. At Ocean Boulevard and Termino Avenue, a 49-year-old, male 1998 Toyota pick-up truck driver reportedly “failed to yield to an oncoming 2014 Toyota Corolla.” The Corolla driver remained on the scene and police said that “at this time, neither alcohol, drugs nor distracted driving are believed to be factors in this collision.” (LBPD)
2. On Sunday evening at around 6:57 p.m., the LBPD went to the 3600 Block of East 7th Street on a shots-fired call. Someone was seen shooting and fleeing in a black vehicle. Officers found the car “near the 700 block of Loma Avenue, and subsequently arrested the driver and seized a firearm from inside the vehicle.” Reportedly, the 20-year-old shooting suspect got into a dispute with the victim, and it escalated. (LBPD Blotter)
3. Did you smell the smoke Sunday afternoon? There was a brush fire reported at the 405 Freeway around 5 p.m. Officials had to stop traffic, and firefighters got to work. By 7:15 p.m., the lanes reopened, and the fire was knocked down. (LB Post)
4. Outgoing Mayor Robert Garcia, who will go on to Congress, has proposed turning the area "centered around the Broadway Corridor and the neighborhoods north of Alamitos Beach" into a culture district of the LGBTQ community. “Everyone knows it as the heart of the LGBTQ community, but if there’s a way to make sure that history is preserved, that’s what we’re trying to do,” he explained. (LB Post)
5. Mark your calendars! Head to Alamitos Beach on Saturday at 1 p.m., and you will see the grand opening of the City’s “newest beach attraction, an inflatable aquatic playground known as the ‘Wibit’.” This is a FREE attraction featuring “a springboard, bouncer, monkey bars and other elements to encourage water play, such as swimming, balancing, climbing, jumping, (and) sliding.” Hours of operation are from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and anyone under age 14 needs adult supervision. (LB Local News)

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Today in Long Beach:

• Virtual Healthcare Job Fair (11 a.m.)
• Arts Grown LA Performance with the Chameleons Mime Theater at the Bret Harte Library (noon)
• Turning Your Dream Into A Business Webinar with the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (1 p.m.)
• Bixby Park Farmers' Market (3 p.m.)
• Moonlight Movies On The Beach presents Coco at Granada Beach (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Discover the Long Beach Public Library’s African American Resource Collection at Burnett Library. The collection is curated by the African American Heritage Society of Long Beach. (Long Beach Public Library Foundation via Facebook)
• Our Alamitos Beach neighbor has spotted the black skimmer (Rynchops Niger), a bird that migrates to our beaches here in the fall and leaves in the spring. There is a group of over a hundred or more of them that come in with the rising sun and leave at sunset. (Nextdoor)
• A neighbor in the Belmont Heights South area wonders if anybody wants a very friendly black cat with green eyes. She is fixed, about two years old and prefers to be inside but currently lives out. (Nextdoor)
• A Belmont Heights Central backyard chicken owner posted a video of 4-week-old chickens taking a dust bath. They are in their awkward teenager phase. (Nextdoor)
• Our Lakewood Village neighbor started a YouTube Channel this year with the purpose of spreading LOVE and for people to get to know them! Check it out. (Nextdoor)

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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