LONG BEACH, Calif.—A 31-year-old man who authorities said is homeless and suspected of assaulting multiple people in Long Beach and stabbing two others was shot by Long Beach Police Department officers but is expected to survive, police said Wednesday.
The shooting occurred shortly before noon Tuesday near Second Street and Quincy Avenue, according to the police department.
According to police, officers originally responded to the area of Second Street and Park Avenue on a report of somebody possibly stabbing multiple people.
On further investigation, police determined that two people—a man and a woman—had not been stabbed, but only assaulted or struck by the suspect, who walked a short distance away and assaulted a man in Livingston Park who was holding a 2-year-old child, causing the man to drop the child and fall to the ground, police said. The suspect then stabbed the victim several times in the lower body….