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Police are investigating the murder of a man in his 30s who was found shot to death in San Francisco’s SOMA district late Saturday night, a San Francisco police spokesman said this morning.

Police responded just after 11 p.m. to a welfare check on Mission and 5th streets, where arriving officers located a man inside a car suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body, Officer Albie Esparza said.

Emergency responders pronounced the man dead at the scene.

No suspect information was available as of 2:30 a.m.

Laura Dixon, Bay City News

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