Long Beach police are investigating a shooting late Friday on the 1000 block of Long Beach Boulevard that left no one injured after the suspect fled before officers could arrive. Officers were dispatched to a shots-fired call around 10:40 p.m. and located evidence that a shooting had occurred, though the gunman was already gone by the time patrol units reached the scene.
The incident, first reported by MyNewsLA.com, remains an open investigation, with detectives working from physical evidence at the scene rather than a cooperative victim or witness account. No arrests have been announced, and police have not released a suspect description tied to this case.
A Pattern of Late-Night Gunfire in Central Long Beach
This is not an isolated event for the corridor. Just six days earlier, officers responded to another so-called “no-hit” shooting on August 15 in the 1200 block of Pine Avenue, less than a mile away, where they recovered physical evidence of gunfire but no reported injuries, according to the City of Long Beach. In both cases, the suspects fled before police arrived, leaving investigators to reconstruct what happened from shell casings and scene evidence alone.
The 1000 block of Long Beach Boulevard itself has a documented history of violence. On December 9, 2025, police responded to a physical altercation on the same block that escalated into a stabbing, leaving an adult male hospitalized with upper-body wounds, per city records. Further back, homicide detectives investigated a fatal shooting there on June 27, 2023, that killed 64-year-old Isaac Marshell IV and eventually led to multiple arrests. In June 2024, that stretch of the boulevard was shut down for four hours during a SWAT standoff after a woman pointed a replica firearm at a security guard and officers inside an apartment building before surrendering, with SWAT deploying gas after de-escalation efforts failed.
How “No-Hit” Shootings Get Prosecuted
Cases like Friday’s present a distinct legal challenge because no victim was struck. Under California law, discharging a firearm without hitting anyone can be charged under Penal Code Section 246.3 for negligent discharge, a “wobbler” offense punishable by up to three years in custody, or escalated to a felony under Section 246 if the gunfire was aimed at an occupied structure or vehicle, according to the Shouse Law Group. Whether either charge applies here depends on facts investigators have not yet disclosed…