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5001 E. Second St. At 5 a.m., a sextet of hooded teens with a sweet tooth and a window smashing propensity broke into Sweet Jills. Finding no cash, they settled for pastry plundering. Owner Jill Pharis believes the kids caused between $4,000 and $5,000 damage. Pharis cleaned up the mess the kids left behind and opened the store by 5:30 a.m.

5300 block of Paramount Blvd. At 1:20 a.m., five individuals robbed a single person, then fled with the proceeds.

6100 block of Monlaco St. At 5:37 a.m. a residential fire broke out with heavy smoke. Said a neighbor, “Sadly for well over 20 years this residence has had numerous clean up citations from the city. Has always had tons of things all around the property. Sad that it finally came to this.”

5000 block of Falcon Ave. At 10:15 p.m., reports of a shooting into an inhabited dwelling were verified by evidence

5150 Atlantic Ave. At 8:02 a.m., a man on a dirt bike shot another man, then fled west on 52nd Street.

5300 block Second St. At 4 p.m. a woman stabbed in the abdomen area with a sharp pole coupled with an arrest of female transient indicated a possibly solved crime of violence.

200 block West Wardlow Rd. At 7:40 a.m., an assisted living facility nurse found a victim of a fatal upper body stabbing, the knife still in the subject. Unknown if suicide or a homicide. The roommate is being questioned.

5400 block of Conant St. At 10:10 a.m., patrol volunteer Jerry Shultz was told the man from “a manhole cover in the middle of the street” in white trousers and a black hood emerged, slid the heavy cover back in place and nonchalantly walked down the street with a can of spray paint in hand. Police detained him near Stearnlee Avenue and Harco Street. “This was the third such incident in the past few months,” said Shultz. “He was leaving a manhole on Spring Street at San Anseline Avenue and again on San Anseline Avenue and Mezzanine Street,” each time, avoiding a beheading from passing traffic.

Long Beach Blvd. between Scott St. and Harcort St. Noon reports of a dead body found inside a bloody restroom. The coroner removed the body at 4 p.m.

Los Coyotes Diag. and Carson St. At 3:31 p.m., a female transient disrupted a pizza parlor attempting to break windows.

Sixth Street and Pine Ave. After a 11:54 p.m. street argument, a man walked into a hospital with a non-life-threatening stab wound to the lower body. Officers located a crime scene.

Bellflower Blvd. and Spring St. At 1:15 a.m., as Jerry Shultz was patrolling behind Lowe’s he saw several men loading “a large U-Haul truck backed up to some pallets of assorted commodities.” Seeing Shultz, “the driver tooted his horn twice to alert his crew and they pulled down the rear door, jumped in the truck and sped off toward Spring Street. The truck had no front license plate and I could not see the rear one.” Not giving chase, Shultz “notified the police and the night crew at Lowe’s and the police kept a patrol car there until 6 a.m.”

Seventh St. near Terraine Ave. At 6:20 a.m., a speeding westbound Honda Civic lost control, moving into opposing lanes of Seventh Street traffic, colliding head-on into a Honda Accord. Both drivers were killed. The driver of the Honda Accord was identified as Salvador Medina, 37 of Long Beach.

61st St. and DeForest Ave. A 5:47 p.m. two-group shoot-out yielded nary an injury, but a spate of fleeing.

Seventh St. and Cherry Ave. At 8:33 p.m., a male juvenile self-transported to a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the lower body after an argument with a shooter in a group that fled.

100 block of West Bort St. At 12:55 a.m. a man walked into a hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to the upper body, remembering nothing. Crime scene and evidence of a shooting found.

4200 block of Atlantic Ave. At 1:30 p.m., a car hit a tree on the wrong side of the street and median. Said a witness, “frame pushed in enough to be pretty fast speed” in posted 30 mph zone. Said a pundit, “I’m sorry for the tree,”

3300 block of Santa Fe Ave. A 10:31 p.m. no-hit shooting, gone-shooter, left-over evidence.

Atlantic Blvd. off-ramp of 405 Fwy. An 11:01 p.m. a multi-vehicle collision of a semi-truck a box truck and two sedans killed 20-year-old Evan Zeller of Los Alamitos.

Stearns St. and Canehill Ave. At 8:30 a.m., a large gray SUV hit tree in the center island that divides the main road from the neighborhood side.

Wardlow Rd. and Bellflower Blvd. At 9:10 a.m., an Edison Company “equipment issue” caused a 15-plus-hour blackout for 5,000 homes, for some at almost 100 degrees, unresolved until post- midnight. Edison’s voicemail about “analyzing the problem” by pondering what hath Thomas Edison wrought?