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"At this time, it is not believed that this incident is related to that investigation," the LBPD said in a statement released Saturday.Long Beach police asked anyone with information regarding Friday's incident to call them at 562-570-7244.Officers were dispatched about 7:30 p.m. Friday to the gas station in the 3000 block of Bellflower Boulevard regarding a report of an accidental discharge of a firearm.The injured man was identified as Long Beach resident Jeffrey Garcia and no one else was injured in the shooting. LBPD had requested the assistance of the FBI in investigating the alleged threats. Another message referred to organizing violence toward King.The handgun was located by police and collected as evidence. - ADVERTISEMENT - Jeffrey Garcia, 54, of Long Beach, commented on a … Or, contact our editors by emailing moderator@scng.com.Long Beach officers were called to the 3000 block of Bellflower Boulevard regarding an accidental discharge of a concealed firearm about 7:30 p.m. Friday and found 54-year-old Jeffrey Garcia of Long Beach with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, police said.The Department does not typically release detailed information regarding accidental firearm discharges, but did so in this case “in a proactive effort to ensure openness within our community,” police said in a news release.Garcia was inside the gas station when the gun discharged. LBPD had requested the assistance of the FBI in investigating the alleged threats. “Organize it jeff,” Tartaglione wrote back to … He was taken by paramedics to a local hospital for treatment, police said.According to the screenshots with King’s article, Garcia and two other retired LBPD officers engaged in comments on the Facebook post, which contained messages of putting a team together to stop criminals that Democrats created, according to the screenshots. Garcia is one of three former LBPD officers being investigated for allegedly writing violent threats against the activist on a private Facebook page for California law enforcement officers.A retired 54-year-old police sergeant suffered a wound to his lower body when he accidentally fired a gun while inside a gas station in Long Beach, police said Saturday.Garcia was taken to an area hospital for the non-life threatening gunshot wound. The former lawman was recently named in a separate investigation into threats made against a Black Lives Matter activist.
Officers responded to the gas station in the 3000 block of Bellflower Boulevard after retired Long Beach police Sgt. Garcia retired from the LBPD in 2014, police said, adding the other two retired in 1997 and 1993. Although we do not pre-screen comments, we reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request.