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Long Beach Police Search for Gunman After Fatal Shooting of Truck Driver

Police were searching for a gunman in Long Beach following a shooting that left a driver who was found shot inside his truck dead.

Officers were dispatched to the 1900 block of Myrtle Avenue and found the victim inside his car shot in the abdomen, according to the Long Beach Police Department. 

The driver was shot near Damon Street and Myrtle Avenue, police said. He drove about two blocks south before crashing into a vehicle. The driver later died, police said.

The area of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway was shut down as SWAT officers searched for the gunman, who they believed is holed up inside a house.

No further details were immediately available.

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