Millikan Shooting Update + Dead Body At Shopping Center + Upgrade

Hey, Long Beach! Here's everything you need to know to get this Thursday started off right.

Is the school safety officer’s role in conflict with the shooting? Also, no foul play was suspected in the discovery of a dead body. Finally, the City is getting upgraded all over the place!

First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 85 Low: 62.

Here are the top stories today in Long Beach:

1. Update: The woman shot by the Millikan school safety officer is an 18-year-old mother of a five-month-old boy. The officer “saw a physical altercation take place between an 18-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl in the street.” The school safety officer is now on “paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigations.” “SSOs do not arrest but can detain pending an investigation by law enforcement. Deadly force is allowed in self defense or in defense of others to prevent death and great bodily injury,” a LBUSD spokesperson explained. (KTLA, LB Post)
2. The LBUSD’s Superintendent of Schools, Jill A. Baker, Ed. D., issued a press release advising that the school district community is “collectively holding the shooting victim in our thoughts.” Students affected by what they saw should seek school counselor support. “Our school safety officers are hired to protect the physical safety of our staff and students on and around campuses. They are highly trained and held accountable to the established standards in their profession. Those standards will be used to assess the incident that occurred yesterday.” (LBUSD)
3. A dead body was found near the shopping center on 2nd and PCH. The LBPD joined the LBFD at the 6400 block of PCH. “At this time, there are no signs of foul play,” the PD stated. (LB Post)
4. The City hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the new DeForest Park Environmental Education Center at 6255 DeForest Avenue. It will be a satellite office for the Conservation Corps of Long Beach, which is headquartered at 340 Nieto Avenue. It also operates “an existing Education, Conservation, Operations & Recycling Center at 3635 Atlantic Ave. as well as an Environmental Education Center at 3251 E. 19th St. in Signal Hill.” (City of LB)
5. Council member Stacy Mungo Flanigan is ready to take her victory lap with the grand opening of the El Dorado Park West Multi-Purpose Sports Field. The ceremony is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. See “the largest sports field in the City of Long Beach, measuring 210 feet by 315 feet” complete with the hotly debated synthetic turf at 2700 Studebaker Road. (City of LB)

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Today in Long Beach:

• Tai Chi for Beginners at Marine Stadium Park, 5300 East Eliot Street (between Colorado Street and Boathouse Lane). (11:45 a.m.)
• Latinx Heritage Month Presentation: "Chinese Mexicans and Mexicanidad” with Dr. Fredy González (University of Illinois at Chicago). This webinar is sponsored by the MOLAA. (2 p.m.)
• LB Uptown Farmers’ Market, east side of Atlantic Avenue at 46th Street, just south of Del Amo. (3 p.m.)
• Community Mapping Workshop at the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library, 1401 East Anaheim Street. (5:30 p.m.)
• Tian performs Latin Guitar at Sevilla Restaurant & Tapas Bar, 140 Pine Avenue. (7 p.m.)

Long Beach Patch Notebook

• Long Beach Airport: "#DYK We have one of the strictest noise ordinances of any airport in the U.S.? Stemming from a 1995 agreement, the ordinance helps us maintain the highest possible quality of life for surrounding neighborhoods while providing economic..." (Instagram)
• Long Beach Public Library: "!Novedades! - Entérate de los materiales en español nuevos e interesantes que te ofrece la Biblioteca Pública de Long Beach. !Novedades! - Learn about the newest and most interesting Spanish language materials LBPL has to offer!" (Facebook)
• Long Beach City: "Participate in the Redistricting Community Mapping Workshops to take part in the important redistricting process! City staff-led workshops will help familiarize residents with the online mapping tools & answer your questions regarding th..." (Facebook)
• Long Beach City Clerk: "Are you a newly minted American citizen? Don’t forget to confirm your voter registration, so you can cast your first ever American election ballot! Register to Vote registertovote.ca.gov #NationalVoterRegistrationDay" (Facebook)

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