Authorities today announced that a second arrest has been made in the January 2021 shooting death of a man in a homeless encampment adjacent to the 91 Freeway in Long Beach.
On Jan. 10, 2021, officers were dispatched to the 2300 block of East 68th Street at about 8:10 p.m. regarding a reported shooting victim. They found a man in a homeless encampment adjacent to the westbound lanes of the freeway, the Long Beach Police Department reported.
Arriving paramedics pronounced the man, 64-year-old Samuel Villalba of Long Beach, dead at the scene. Villalba had been shot multiple times in the upper body and witnesses at the scene described two or more men fleeing the scene on foot toward Cherry Avenue, police said…