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Steve Propes

Friday, April 14

7500 block of Carson St. At 11:30 a.m., Long Beach police officers responded to the discovery of an unresponsive woman at the bottom of a stairwell outside the Edwards Theater at the Long Beach Towne Center. Firefighters determined she had died where she was found. The Los Angeles County Coroner will attempt to identify the woman and determine how she died, though preliminary investigations suggest the woman, apparently middle aged, died of natural causes.

Saturday, April 15

Magnolia Ave. and Ocean Blvd. According to blues guitarist Bernie Pearl, at 9 a.m., 600 or so protesters gathered in front of the closed IRS office, not to protest paying of taxes, but to demand the president release his returns. “Many hundreds of vehicles drove by, some in strong support, showing signage from their cars, trucks and buses, flashing v-signs and beeping their horns in agreement. I saw but one thumbs-down auto the entire two hours of the march.” So far, no response from the White House.

Los Coyotes Diag. at Clark Ave. A woman with fashionably blue hair behind the wheel of a black Mercedes jauntily tossed a lit cigarette into the window of a nearby battered white Geo Prism at 7:05 p.m., both drivers heading toward the Traffic Circle, cigarette smoke coming from the Prism. Neither seemed in a hurry, nor was there apparent conflict.

Sunday, April 16

1700 block of Second St. A male driver in a champagne-colored Camry took a shotgun out of his trunk and pointed it in the general direction of another driver and drove away in a westerly direction at 5:50 p.m.

Tuesday, April 18

Park Ave. and Seventh St. At 1:20 a.m., an 82-year-old SUV driver allegedly hit a male pedestrian in his 50s, dragging him about a block away. Police, who saw the incident and pulled over the SUV driver at Sixth Street, said the driver was cooperative with authorities. Firefighters freed the victim but determined he had died.

South St. and Downey Ave. At 6 a.m., police were investigating a freshly cut hatch atop a roof of a pawn shop and had officers stationed there to catch anyone who might still be inside. Strong possibility a police dog search might result.

Wednesday, April 25

Paramount Blvd. and Artesia Blvd. At 5:55 a.m., officers followed a Lo-Jack hit on a 2000 Honda Accord stolen out of Los Angeles, which fled at a high rate of speed, police in hot pursuit. After about 50 minutes of erratic driving through several jurisdictions and a handgun tossed out near Lakewood Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue, the driver turned onto a dead-end street in Bellflower. “The suspect made a U-turn, then drove towards the officers at which point an officer involved shooting occurred, resulting in the male driver being struck by gunfire,” said a police press release. Fire personnel took over and determined the suspect, Juan Manuel Avilla, a 20-year-old resident of Paramount, deceased at the scene. His passenger, 20-year-old David Anthony Luera of Paramount, after he crawled out the driver’s side window, was booked into the Long Beach Jail for ex-felon in possession of a firearm and being in possession of a stolen vehicle. He is being held on $35,000 bail.

Wednesday, April 26

Cherry Ave. near Fifth St. A man was shot at 9 p.m. near the Alamitos Beach neighborhood of Long Beach. Taken to the hospital in critical but stable condition, the man died at the hospital. The suspected gunman fled from the scene of the shooting, which police believe was not a random attack.

Monday, May 1

Kallin Ave. and Mezzanine Ave. At 3:20 p.m. a tattooed male in a parked late 80s or early 90s black Accura facing the wrong way emerged from his car and chased down a Cubberly School seventh grader, tripped the boy and took about $10 out of his pocket. Instead of running home, which would give away where he lived, the boy wisely ran to a nearby store. The attacker was described as having facial tattoos with a noticeable green spot inside one of the tattoos.

Wednesday, May 3

5500 block of Conant St. At 2 p.m., two female residents between 65 and 90 years of age heard their dog barking and found a man armed with a handgun inside their home. The armed man demanded their car keys and fled in their 2003 Volkswagen. Neither victim was injured. Then Ian Kilbourne Chambers, 24, of Long Beach was involved in a 6 p.m. traffic collision on the southbound 405 Freeway at the Bolsa Chica off-ramp in Westminster. Chambers was detained by the California Highway Patrol, which determined he matched the description of the robber. Chambers now is at Los Angeles County Jail with bail set at $125,000.

steve@beachcomber.news

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