Long Beach Police Kill 1 Suspect, Wound a 2nd

In separate shootings Tuesday, Long Beach police killed a murder suspect and wounded a man believed to have kidnapped a woman.

Coroner’s officials identified the suspected killer as Fidel Fausto, 23, of Long Beach. He was wanted in the fatal stabbing of a 34-year-old woman June 6 in the 700 block of Virginia Court, Police Sgt. David Cannan said.

About 8:30 p.m. Monday, police went to an apartment complex on Temple Avenue, where Fausto had been hiding from authorities for about a month, Cannan said.

Fausto then ran to an apartment at 11th Street and Ohio Avenue. Police surrounded the area and called for the special weapons and tactics team.

“It wasn’t his apartment,” Cannan said. “It was a random apartment, and he just forcibly entered there. A neighbor said that a family lived there, and we went in there thinking that he was holding a family hostage. There was no one there at the time, but we did find the suspect.”

Fausto had a gun and was hiding under a bed, Cannan said. Shortly after 4 a.m. four members of the SWAT team “confronted him there and a shooting occurred,” said the sergeant.

In the other incident, police were called to the 500 block of Almond Avenue at 2 p.m. by a woman who said she had been kidnapped, according to Cannan.

As police were questioning her, a man pulled up and witnesses identified him as the suspect, the sergeant said.

The man, in his 30s, had a handgun, Cannan said. An officer shot him in the arm.