Millikan Shot Update + Traffic Circle Shooting + Sexual Batterer!

Morning, neighbors! It's me again, your host of the Long Beach Daily.

The young woman shot near Millikan is brain-dead. Also, a woman was robbed and shot near the Traffic Circle. Finally, there’s a sexual batterer on the loose, and it seems he’s already struck eight times!

First, today's weather:

Plenty of sunshine. High: 85 Low: 59.

Here are the top stories today in Long Beach:

1. Update: The 18-year-old young woman shot by the Millikan HS safety officer is brain-dead. She was shot while in the car pulling away from the safety officer. The other occupants were her 20-year-old boyfriend and his 16-year-old brother. Police are investigating the two survivors about their involvement in the fight that led to the shooting. (Daily Mail)
2. The latest shooting took place Tuesday near the Traffic Circle around PCH and Ximeno Avenue. Two men robbed a woman, who was sitting in her parked car, at gunpoint. They took her wallet and shot at her. This area has had several shootings, “but mostly west of the Traffic Circle.” (LBReport)
3. There have been eight cases of sexual battery across the city. (Sexual battery is a legal term for one person groping another, or otherwise sexually gratify themselves, without the other person’s consent.) The first case occurred in May. Incidents happened near Redondo Avenue and Anaheim Street, 3rd Street and Cherry Avenue, Orizaba Avenue and 4th Street, Temple Avenue and 4th Street, Alamitos Avenue and East Broadway, Alamitos Avenue and 3rd Street, Alamitos Avenue and 2nd Street, and Redondo Avenue and 4th Street. If you know anything, please call 562-435-6711. (Fox 11)
4. Four LBFD employees, two firefighters and two fire captains, were disciplined for their participation in a 2018 brawl. Their, “off-duty firefighters rummaged through medical supplies, swore at local first responders and repeatedly got in the way of medical crews treating several people who appeared to be overdosing.” However, back then, then-Fire Chief Mike Duree said there’d be no consequences for the two firefighters. The new fire chief, Xavier Espino, overrode this promise. (LB Post)
5. LB got an indoor golf bar, y’all! Birdies n Brews is at 90 East 4th Street. This is a great hangout for the first-time golfer who wants to dip a toe in the water and is not sure that the links are for them. And yes, the golf simulator does allow you to play Pebble Beach. As for the brews, the owner “made it a point to … find brands that are either [people of color]-, female- or LGBTQ-brewed and –owned.” (The HiLo)

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Today in Long Beach:

• Pa’s Pumpkin Patch opens for the season at 6701 East PCH (9 a.m.)
• Downtown LB Farmers’ Market, 4th and North Promenade (10 a.m.)
• I Matter 2 Youth Fashion Show and Music Concert at the Scottish Rite Event Center, 855 Elm Avenue (6 p.m.)
• Karate lessons at Cesar Chavez Park, 401 Golden Avenue (7:15 p.m.)

Long Beach Patch Notebook

• Long Beach Public Library: ¡Atención a todos los niños y niñas que les gusta leer en español! Únete a nosotros para Bibliodías, donde juntos exploraremos libros y realizaremos manualidades relacionadas al libro del día. (Facebook)
• Long Beach Public Library Foundation: The Foundation presented Vice Mayor Rex Richardson with the 2021 Library Leadership Award at the Grape Expectations gala. (Facebook)
• Leadership Long Beach: There is still time! Apply to the next Youth Leadership Long Beach Class of 2022! (Facebook)

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About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. Her SEO-optimized internet copy includes social media marketing projects and German to English business translations. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Fishdom (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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