Crime & Safety

Teenage Girl Shot to Death in Alley

Early Wednesday morning a girl was shot to death in an alley at 21st Street.

A girl in her mid-to-late teens was found shot to death today in an alley in Long Beach.

A caller reported hearing gunshots in the alley in the 1100 block of East 21st Street, said Nancy Pratt of the Long Beach Police Department. Officers dispatched to the scene at 1:13 a.m. found the victim with a gunshot wound to the upper torso, she said.

Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene, she said.

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Long Beach homicide detectives asked anyone with any information regarding the shooting to call them at (562) 570-7244.

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