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Downtown Entertainment District. Welcome to St. Paddy’s Day. At 5:30 p.m., a female juvenile fought a woman to entertain a crowd, arrests ensued.

East First St. and The Promenade. At 6:26 p.m., a 16-year-old male was shot with a non-life-threatening wound to his lower body. 

Downtown Entertainment District. Answering a social posting instructing teens to “act stupid,” at 10:15 p.m., about 100 young’uns gathered at The Pike shops to commence to stupid. Unlike recent Del Amo Fashion Center disturbances, police who also read the social media, told shops to shutter, then encouraged the police-taunting crowd to disperse, or face arrest. They dispersed.

1800 block of Pine Ave. At 11:32 p.m., a gunfight with no injuries reported.

3400 block of Wilton St. At 8:46 p.m., a male driver discharged a firearm into the air while driving by.

6700 block of East Walkerton St. At 12:41 a.m., an argument, a shooting with a non-life-threatening wound to the victim’s lower body. Police recovered a firearm, arresting Douglas Hammond, 65, of Long Beach for assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a firearm in public. Bail: $30,000.

Terminal Island. At 10:40 a.m., dock worker Bohdan Salmanov, 32, was trapped under a forklift and died at the scene.

3700 block of East Anaheim St. When Ernesto Sanson, 57, entered the Clements Chiropractic clinic, he saw a female patient face down and began massaging her, allegedly jumped on top of her, pulled his pants down. Feeling his genitals rubbing against her backside, she screamed, telling Dr. Corey Clements that Sanson tried to rape her. Clements and a male patient chased Sanson outside and brought him inside the office where he became violent, saying, “I don’t want to go back to prison.” Arrested and charged with a misdemeanor; he faces one year in lockup, max.

Williams St. at 103 Freeway. At 6:10 p.m., a stolen vehicle stopped, five or six occupants sprang out, dashed into a huge multi-unit building with no sheriff squad car close by. The capered vehicle continued to roll, then stopped, the riders got away.

Artesia Blvd. at Downey Ave. At 9:13 p.m., after sheriff deputies responded to the 15900 block of Indiana Avenue in Paramount for a restraining order violation, the suspect was seen in his red, early 70s Pontiac Ventura. As the deputy pulled up behind the suspect, the man put the muscle car in reverse and deliberately crashed into the front of the patrol unit, with the suspect’s car winding up partially on top of the sheriff’s vehicle. He got out of the vehicle holding a knife and charged at them. Two deputies opened fire, killing Jose Acosta. A deputy was treated for injuries sustained in the crash. No other people were hurt.

1055 Walnut Ave. At 10:30 p.m., came reports of a shooting to a victim’s chest.

100 block of E. Eagle St. At 4 p.m., street corner vendor and married father of two, 37-year-old Yener Ramirez was gunned down and died at the hospital. Police determined several men down the block possibly targeted two customers at his vending cart.

Ocean Blvd. and Redondo Ave. A motorcycle doing wheelies deep into the 4:40 p.m. rush hour for Tiktok videos or just to raise dust, smoke and exhaust … not to mention tire tread.

Long Beach. At 8:44 p.m., a stable condition stabbed man wasn’t talking.

Gerald Desmond Bridge. At 6 p.m., traffic jammed from stopping to pick up cash from the roadway. Why of free-cash-day and how it’s operated unknown.

55th Way and Paramount Blvd. At 6:58 p.m., a 4-year-old female pedestrian outside of a crosswalk hit by a 2020 Ford F-150 succumbed to her injuries at the hospital. The 25- year-old Downey male driver was cooperative.

Seventh St. and Maine Ave. At 10:22 a.m., Anthony Valentino Lopez died from a gunshot wound in his upper body after arguing with Alejandro Lara Delgado, 33, and Xavier Alexandro Vasquez, 37, from Long Beach, who fled, then pulled over in a felony traffic stop near Anaheim Street and Pine Avenue, then taken into custody

Cherry Ave. at the 405 Freeway. At 9 p.m., several large trees were blazing away.

Seventh St. and Roswell Ave. A 9:50 p.m. hit-and-run of two bicyclists, the hitter heading westbound.

Pacific Coast Hwy and Oregon Ave. A multi vehicle collision at 8:47 p.m., seven injuries, two critical.

1000 block of Alamitos Ave. At 10:04 p.m., shots fired; two men arrested on unrelated charges; involvement in the shooting investigated.

300 block of 8th St. At 10:52 p.m., a man argued with a woman, to settle things, shot at the woman’s car. No injuries.

11th St. and Lewis Ave.  While walking home from work, at 8:26 p.m., 17-year-old Briana Soto was shot on the sidewalk, dying in the hospital on March 30.

San Gabriel River and Willow St. At 9:40 p.m., a pair of men who knew each other argued, then one took a non-life-threatening stab wound to the upper body.