redkanga

Dateline: Long Beach, CA

At around 10:45pm shots rang out just down the street from my house. I wasn’t sure whether they were gunshots or firecrackers. Ok, I was pretty sure that they were gunshots, but I didn’t want to alarm Katie. She came outside and asked me what they were and I told her I wasn’t sure, but that the ‘noise’ came from down the street, Hoffman and 10th. At least that’s where I pin-pointed the sound to.

About 20 minutes later, the ghetto bird, er LBPD helicopter, was circling the neighborhood. We went out front to see where it was circling. Well, darned if it wasn’t circling, and shining it’s bright light, around Hoffman between 9th & 10th streets. That was when we noticed the LBPD car blocking Hoffman.

That’s when Katie said that it is time to move…