Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Discharged firearms in the news: Fri 27 July - Thur 2 Aug 2012 [View all]struggle4progress
(117,949 posts)Posted: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:32 pm
By Jonathan Van Dyke
Staff Writer | 1 comment
A drive-by shooting Tuesday night downtown killed a Long Beach man.
The Long Beach Police Department responded at 10:48 p.m., Tuesday, July 31, to a shooting in an alley near the 1000 block of East Sixth Street, officials said.
Officers found 21-year-old Long Beach resident Gelacio Medina Ramirez in the alley. Ramirez had been struck by gunfire at least one time in the upper body, investigators said. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but he died today (Wednesday) from his injuries.
According to investigators, it appears that Ramirez was talking with several acquaintances in the alley before a car drove through and someone from within the car fired a gun no words were exchanged prior to the shooting ...
http://www.gazettes.com/news/crime/police-brief-drive-by-shooting-kills-man/article_2ad4c324-dc31-11e1-bd30-001a4bcf887a.html