Florentino Ross-Rivera, a 16-year-old Latino youth, was shot in the 1500 block of Cedar Avenue in Long Beach about 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6. A citizen flagged down a Long Beach patrol officer, who found Ross-Rivera on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound.
He was taken by the Long Beach Fire Department to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:50 p.m.
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