A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of killing another 15-year-old boy in an afternoon shooting that sparked a pair of SWAT searches in North Long Beach earlier this week, police said today.
The shooting occurred around 12:30 p.m. Thursday near Cedar Avenue and Plymouth Street.
A neighbor told the Long Beach Post he heard a single gunshot and went outside to see the victim lying in the street. He was taken by paramedics to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Believing the shooter could still be nearby, SWAT teams twice scoured the neighborhood but came up empty. Police said homicide detectives “quickly identified the suspect as a 15-year-old male resident of Long Beach” and made a plan to arrest him…