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Officer Shoots Boy, 14, in L.B. Auto IncidentA 14-y ear-old -Long Beach boy, accompanying a schoolmate who reportedly took his grandmother’s car fur a joyride, was shot and wounded by a Long Beach police detective Thursday night.Dale Leroy Bluhn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bluhm of 505 E. 19th St., was reported in fair condition today in General Hospital*A bullet fragment was lodged against a vertebra.Bluhm and his friend, Michael Symonds, also J4, of 165*4 E. 12th St., were booked on suspicion of grand theft auto after theincident.ACCORDING to LL Rob ert Hill, Detective Jerry M. Heath of liie robbery division, saw the teen-agers looking under the hood of a parked car in front of 141 Elm Ave. at about 10:30 p.m. They pushed the autoabout two or three houses down the street and got in the car. Hill related.Heath said he ordered the youths to halt after showing them his badge at a nearby stop signal, but they drove off.Heath fired six shots from his .3-caIiber service revolver, four of them striking the auto.The police officer said hedidn't realize the boys were so young.”Lt. Hill said the Bluhm boy is 6*feet, 1-inch tall and weighs about 170 pounds, while the Symonds youth is about 5-feet, 8 and weighs about 125 pounds, Hill said.Officers said the - boys told police, they took the car from Symonds' grandparents, ..Mr; and Mrs. Joseph Grazenovich. Young Symonds said he knew that his grandparents kept a spare key to the car under the hood, which was parked in front of their Elm Ave. home.
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Long Beach, California, US
Fri, Apr 28, 1967
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