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2600 block Santa Fe Ave. At 12:19 a.m. a female in full arrest at an Arco station underwent unsuccessful life-saving measures; unknown if the cause was natural or not.

14th Street and Chestnut Ave. At 10:09 p.m., five or six gunshots reportedly fired, a male running southbound on Chestnut, a dark pickup leaving at a higher rate of speed.

Alamitos Ave. and Anaheim St. At 10:50 p.m., a male pedestrian standing outside of a crosswalk in the middle of Alamitos Avenue when a northbound vehicle struck him and failed to stop. Transported to the hospital, the man succumbed to his injuries.

Pacific Coast Hwy and Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. At 6 p.m., a two-car collision with one vehicle split in half resulted in the death of a nearby pedestrian. A driver went to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, other driver treated at the scene. A bus bench was ripped from the sidewalk, landing in the 7-Eleven parking lot and two other cars had minor damage.

Long Beach. The city’s online presence was the victim of a hack attack, replaced by an explanation and a listing of airport flight arrivals. Online access returned mid-day on November 27, thirteen days after the outage occurred. 

Millikan High School. Caught on cellphone video, a male student was in an aggressive locked stance with a male teacher. Other students broke up the fight; names of the parties not released by Long Beach Unified School District. The student was not arrested, but investigation could result in the student’s suspension or expulsion.

5412 E Village Rd. At 5:17 a.m., three hoodie-wearing males broke glass and cut the latch on the side of the front door to a pharmacy. The alarm sounded, police arrived 40 minutes later according to an employee. There was no loss as drugs are arranged generically and don’t carry any brand names. Last break-in, three months ago.

3000 block of Magnolia Ave. At 8:10 a.m., a man on a balcony tossed items at parked cars and hit at least one of the vehicles.

Traffic Circle area. A man with a baseball bat attacked a woman in possession of a bag of makeup at 8:15 a.m., causing her to lose her foundation.

1000 block Alamitos Ave. At 4:23 p.m., shots were fired and a blue sedan left at a high rate of speed.

6500 block Cherry Ave. At 4:54 p.m., a miscreant cleverly employed a knife to try and steal money at a 7-Eleven, but when the cashier didn’t open the cash register, the suspect stole smokes.

5300 block Long Beach Blvd. At 10:40 p.m., after a dispute, a male was shot in his extremities.

Cherry Ave. and South St. At 1:53 p.m. a robbery of $60 from a cash register occurred at a 7-Eleven. No injuries reported

Cherry Ave. at Willow St. At 5 p.m., a bevy of about 100 mopeds traveled northbound with one of them toting a large white, red and green flag. Online comments described them as a “Mini Moto bike gang” answered by “looks like fun!” The comment, “the Hell’s Angels of the 21st Century appearance. Read your Bible” was rejoined by “are the Hell’s Angels in the Bible?”

Broadway near Orange Ave. At 4:05 p.m., a consumer walked out of a retail outlet with several thousand dollars of merch in a forgot-to-pay scheme.

5000 block of Long Beach Blvd. A man in his 40s at the bus stop was allegedly waving a knife while yelling at others at 12:40 p.m. If he was after attention, attention he got.

Long Beach Blvd. south of Anaheim St. At 12:48 a.m., police encountered a “large scale fight” on the Blue Line platform, with people falling to the street as an arriving passenger was robbed. The 30-or-so backpack garbed teens then walked west on Anaheim Street as if nothing happening here, leaving behind a victim later to be located.

Anaheim St. and Redondo Ave. At 10 a.m., a man in his 40s pulled out a gun, fired several shots prior to departing toward Obispo Avenue.

4150 E. Carson St. Consumers loaded up several shopping carts with TJ Maxx goods and departed the store without the payment part at 4:30 p.m.

Wardlow Rd. and Los Coyotes Diag. At 6:12 p.m., a traffic collision, live wires down, danger area locked down, traffic diverted.

Fourth St. and Orizaba Ave. At 9 a.m., a man shopping for Thanksgiving flowers maneuvering his newish 2020 Corolla out of a parking space was hit by a speeding old gray car driven by a 20ish woman, who got out to check for damage, then got in her car and zoomed away in an erratic fashion, while the Corolla driver was left with “a crack in my rear.”

Long Beach Blvd. and Artesia Blvd. At 3 p.m., a stolen Dodge sedan pursued by the sheriff out of Compton crashed into a pickup truck with both drivers, a truck passenger and a pedestrian injured.