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These shootings come as Long Beach police say they’ve seen an alarming rise in gun violence. On Tuesday night, for instance, police rushed to four separate reports of gunfire throughout the city.
As of now, police don’t believe the two most recent shootings are related, spokeswoman Allison Gallagher said.
In the first shooting, a man was driving in the area of Pacific Coast Highway and Obispo Avenue when someone shot at him from a gray sedan at about 10:55 p.m. and drove away, police said. The victim called authorities from the area of Redondo Avenue and Anaheim Street and paramedics took him to a local hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his upper body, Gallagher said. He was reportedly in stable condition.