According to a news release from the Long Beach Police Department, officers received a report of a man armed with a gun on the 5200 block of Atlantic Ave around 3:15 p.m. on Nov. 19. In a later statement, police spokesman Richard Mejia said that police received a 911 text, which Boyd confirmed he had sent.

Standing on the steps of their local church, where their 38-year-old brother was shot and killed, Brandon Boyd’s siblings Tuesday demanded the Long Beach Police Department quickly release body camera video and 911 call data that could shed more light on what happened on Nov. 19.

A grieving family is asking for help finding out who killed their 51-year-old brother in a homeless encampment on Junipero Beach. Police said Frank Suggs was one of the two men who was shot shortly before 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 24, in an encampment at the beach playground that was closed for repairs.

Family members of a 38-year-old man in the throes of a mental health crisis, who called 911 himself and was later shot dead by police on the steps of a Long Beach church in a gunbattle that left

Brandon Boyd’s family members held a news conference and called for justice on Tuesday, nearly a week after he was shot and killed by police in Long Beach.

Family members of a 38-year-old man in the throes of a mental health crisis, who called 911 himself and was later shot dead by police on the steps of a Long Beach church in a gunbattle that left one officer injured,