LONG BEACH – A 19-year-old woman was jailed in lieu of $2 million bail Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of a 19-year-old man in Long Beach.
The killing happened on around 11 p.m. May 27. Long Beach Police Department officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Pacific Coast Highway, near the intersection with Locust Avenue, regarding a shots-fired call and found a young man, later identified as Jordan Mosby of Atwater, with a gunshot wound to his upper body, according to the LBPD.
Firefighters pronounced the man dead at the scene.
“Through their investigation, homicide detectives identified the suspect as Deriana Cole … of Compton,” according to a police statement.
Cole was already in custody in the city jail on an unrelated matter and on Monday she was rebooked on suspicion of murder, police said.
The motive for the killing remains under investigation and anyone with information about the shooting was urged to contact the homicide detectives investigating the case at 562-570-7244.
