2 teen girls injured in Central Long Beach shooting
Two men were also stabbed and shot in separate incidents early Monday morning, police said.
Two teenage girls were shot while standing with a group of people in Central Long Beach Sunday night, police said.
Long Beach police responded to reports of a shooting near Anaheim Street and Elm Avenue around 9:17 p.m., according to police. There, officers found two teens who had been shot, LBPD said.
The two teens self-transported to the hospital, police said. Their wounds were not considered life-threatening.
According to police, a suspect or suspects fired shots into a group of people, hitting the two teens.
Suspect information and a motive for the shooting remain under investigation, according to the LBPD.
About three hours later, LBPD officers responded to a local hospital following reports of a male victim with a possible gunshot wound, police said.
The man told police he had been "walking in the city of Long Beach" when he noticed a possible gunshot wound on his lower body, according to the LBPD.
Though officers responded to the location the victim described, they were unable to locate a crime scene, police said.
The man's wound was considered non-life-threatening, police added.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing, according to police.
Then around 3 a.m., LBPD officers responded to reports of a stabbing Downtown.
A man stabbed another man in the area of Anaheim Street and Alamitos Avenue, police said, adding that officers were unable to locate a crime scene at that site.
The victim was transported to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, according to the LBPD.
Suspect information and motive for that incident are under investigation, police said.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the neighborhood in which the teens were injured.
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