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LONG BEACH, CA — Two people were hospitalized in critical condition following a shooting in Long Beach Tuesday afternoon, police said. It’s unclear what sparked the shooting, but police say it happened just after 3 p.m. in the area of 20th Street and Long Beach Boulevard. There, officers found one person with multiple life-threatening gunshot wounds to the upper body, according to the Long Beach Police Department. He was taken Long Beach Fire personnel to a local hospital for treatment, police said. A second person wounded in the shooting, a boy, took himself to a hospital after being hit by gunfire multiple times in the upper body, police said. He is currently in critical but stable condition, they added. “The motive, circumstances of the shooting, and suspect information are under investigation,” police said in a statement Wednesday. Source link

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday night, once again creating a light show for Southern California and even those hundreds of miles away. The company posted on X the launch of the rocket carrying 26 Starlink satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. The Falcon 9 launch, seen from Pasadena, created a streak of light in the clear Southern California sky (Jevon Phillips / Los Angeles Times) The rocket lifted off at 8:36 p.m. from its launchpad at the California base and reached low Earth orbit about 8½ minutes later, according to reporting by Space.com. The company said it was the third flight of the mission’s first stage booster, which — following separation — would plunk down on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship moored in the Pacific. SpaceX is known around the Southland for its highly visible vapor trails as well as its sudden booms. A loud boom and rattling were reported last month across a broad swath of the region due to a sonic boom from a SpaceX cargo vessel. Source link