One person was injured in a Fourth of July drive-by shooting in Long Beach, and a search was continuing Wednesday for the assailant.
Officers were dispatched around 7:55 p.m. Tuesday to the 6500 block of Indiana Avenue to a report of shots being fired, according to the Long Beach Police Department. Officers located “bullet casings and strike marks” indicating that a shooting had occurred, although no victim was at the scene, police said.
“Responding officers were notified that a male adult victim related to the incident was being transported to a local hospital for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the lower body,” according to the police department.
The victim told officers he was walking in an alleyway when a vehicle approached him from behind, and an occupant opened fire, striking the man, police said. The suspect fled the area in an unknown direction.
A vehicle in the area of the shooting and occupied by a man, a woman and a girl was struck by gunfire, but none of the occupants were injured, police said.
There was no known motive for the shooting, and the investigation was continuing, police said.