Long Beach Resident Shoots, Kills Would-Be Burglar in Bluff Park Area

UPDATED at 8:04 p.m.: A Long Beach resident shot and killed a would-be burglar this morning in the Bluff Park area, a police officer said.

Officers responded to the 2800 block of East Third Street at 2:24 a.m. regarding a burglary in progress, said Long Beach Officer Megan Zabel.

The deceased suspect was identified as Ryan Mitchell Anderson, 29, of Long Beach, Los Angeles County Coroner’s Lt. Larry Dietz said.

“The resident had shot the suspect,” Zabel said. “Officers arrived along with paramedics who pronounced the burglary suspect deceased at the scene,” she said.

There were no reports of the residents being injured, Zabel said.

Homicide investigators were at the scene.

The shooting comes 19 days after an 80-year-old man in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach shot and killed a woman he claimed he found inside his home with a man trying to break into his safe. He said they tackled him and he broke his collar bone in the scuffle.

The man said he acted in self defense as he shot the woman in the back as she ran from his home, killing her, because the pair had burglarized his home twice before.

--City News Service