LONG BEACH – Police Monday reported an arrest in the shooting death of a 27-year-old man in the Coolidge Park neighborhood of Long Beach amid some kind of family dispute.

Officers with the Long Beach Police Department were called to the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and Bort Street around 11:15 p.m. Thursday regarding reports of gunshots and found a man, later identified as Rickie Taylor of Long Beach, suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper body, according to LBPD Lt. Gerrit DeJongh.

Long Beach Fire Department personnel arrived and took Taylor to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Homicide detectives assumed the investigation and identified Sean Richson, 39, of Los Angeles, as the suspected shooter.

“On Aug. 1, 2025, Special Investigations Division detectives located

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