Heavily armed Long Beach police officers rushed to North Long Beach this morning where they believed the suspect in a deadly shooting was holed up in a home just east of DeForest Park.
The standoff began shortly after 11:15 a.m., which is when police received a report of a suspect who shot a woman in the 300 block of 63rd Street. She was carried to safety and taken to a local hospital where she died, police said.
At the scene, officers also pulled a man who appeared to be gravely hurt from inside a nearby pickup truck. He died at the scene, according to the Long Beach Police Department. It wasn’t immediately clear if he’d been shot or injured in some other way.
Police said the shooter may have fled into a nearby home. Officers soon surrounded the house on 63rd Street west of Elm Avenue and called a SWAT team to the scene. They also began evacuating nearby homes.
With armored vehicles in place, police made announcements ordering the suspect to come out. They also fired stun grenades and tear gas into the home.