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Adriatic Ave. and West 20th St. At 2:55 p.m., a 15-year-old Cabrillo student was shot in his upper body with a life-threatening wound.

Eastbound 91 Fwy. at Downey Ave. At 10:26 p.m., a one-fatality traffic collision occurred with both sides of the freeway shut down by the CHP.

Citywide LBPD burglary detectives arrested a 13-year-old at his Long Beach residence, booking him for commercial burglary, possession of a stolen vehicle and felony vandalism at the following locations: April 6 at a 5689 Paramount Blvd. nail salon and April 8 at a 4558 Atlantic Ave. Pizza Hut, April 12 and April 23 at 6440 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, April 26 at a 5013 E. 2nd St. gallery and Sweet Jill’s, 5001 E. 2nd St. broken glass door, damage to registers, purloined baked goods. The suspect was released as a juvenile as was a 12-year-old the next day.

Golden Ave. near 23rd St. At midday, while walking south on Golden, a Nextdoor poster recalled, “someone driving east from the direction of San Francisco, the guy in the back seat holding some kind of gun starts shooting it at me and tiny plastic pellets sting me in my cheek and my arm. Not injured, not even sure what the gun was or the pellets. I just kept walking, but it was so random and scary.”

California Ave. and Willow St. At 10 a.m., a power pole collapsed on a black SUV crushed when it collided with a white VW bug. “This same type of accident happens way too often making a left turn onto Willow from California. My guess these cars are coming from the 405 and do not reduce their speed when they hit the streets.”

Seventh St. and Channel Dr. At 2:38 a.m., a 28-year-old resident of Garden Grove driving eastbound on East Seventh Street struck a pedestrian lying in the roadway, Tung Nguyen Cao, 29, who died at the scene. The driver remained on scene.

Ocean Boulevard and Chestnut Ave. From 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next day, the DUI/CDL checkpoint yielded six citations for unlicensed or suspended/revoked licensed drivers. Apparently, no drunks were cited or arrested, perhaps because drinking establishments shoo out their patrons at 2 a.m., disallowing sufficient opportunity for them to drive off under the influence into the checkpoint.

3700 Block of Olive Ave. An attempted arson to a vehicle and a suspicious device meant an invitation for the LASO Bomb Squad, which declared the device inert post-area evacuation and avenue closedown at 3:20 p.m. A suspect is in custody.

Spring St. and Atlantic Ave. At 8 p.m., a group of young males dashed out of Lowe’s carrying a heavy tool chest full of possibly purloined items, which they dropped in the parking lot while making their escape. They jumped into an older import sedan to speed out of the parking lot, almost hitting another car attempting to enter, waved that car off, red light being no barrier, vanished on northbound Atlantic Avenue sans the loot they were after.

Pacific Coast Hwy. and Santa Fe Ave. At 8:59 p.m., a westbound 2016 Toyota Scion, driven by a 27-year-old resident of Wilmington struck pedestrian, 47-year-old Elias Rivera Jr. of Ontario, who was crossing Pacific Coast Highway outside of a marked crosswalk. Then, a westbound 2008 Mazda 3 driven by a 50-year-old Long Beach resident struck Rivera, who was declared deceased. Both drivers remained on-scene and cooperated.

Junipero Ave. south of Anaheim St.  At 11:45 p.m., a two-alarm fire broke out in a once-burned last year one-story house after a propane tank blew up. Two residents and dog escaped uninjured. A man who did not live at the house, Valentin Rocha, a 45-year-old Long Beach resident who was treated for minor burns was arrested on suspicion of “causing a fire to an inhabited structure and possession of drug paraphernalia.”

1600 block of W. 20th St. At 5:48 p.m., a man was walking when approached by a man who stabbed him with non-life-threatening wounds to the upper body.

Southbound Lakewood Blvd. near the airport. At 9:45 p.m., an allegedly drunk female SUV driver crossed the center divider, hit a car head-on, the female driver of which sustained minor injuries.

710 Fwy. at Del Amo Blvd. After two random shots, driver Fabian Limas, 33, was hit in the spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. A similar shooting occurred the following Monday in the same area.

12th St. and Long Beach Blvd. At 11:53 p.m., a 21-year-old Compton woman driving a 2014 Infinity Q50S at a high rate of speed with no headlights approached a 2019 Honda Civic driven by a 29-year-old male Long Beach resident making a southbound turn from Anaheim Street in front of the Infinity, then swerved out of the way to avoid being rear-ended, colliding with a guardrail. The Infinity driver swerved to avoid the collision, lost control and collided into the Metro Train, later dying of her injuries. The Honda driver remained on-scene.