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2:56 PM: A man fatally shot at a lookout point atop Twin Peaks in San Francisco early this morning has been identified by the medical examiner’s office as Luis Venegas.
Venegas, 23, was shot at about 3:20 a.m. in a parking lot at Christmas Tree Point, a vista point that looks out on downtown San Francisco, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
Venegas, a San Mateo resident, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.
He was with a group of friends at the lookout point, and there was also another group nearby in the parking lot, Andraychak said.
After some sort of verbal dispute between the two groups, at least one suspect in the other group shot at Venegas.
The suspects, described only as two or three white or Hispanic males, fled in a white Honda Odyssey minivan, Andraychak said. No arrests had been made as of late this morning, he said.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the San Francisco Police Department’s homicide unit at (415) 553-1145 or the anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444, or text information to TIP411.
11:29 AM: A man was fatally shot at a lookout point atop Twin Peaks in San Francisco early this morning following some sort of altercation between two groups of people, a police spokesman said.
The shooting was reported at about 3:20 a.m. in a parking lot at Christmas Tree Point, a vista point that looks out on downtown San Francisco, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
The victim, a man in his early 20s, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, Andraychak said.
His identity is not being released until his family is notified of the death, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The victim was with a group of friends, and there was also another group nearby in the parking lot, Andraychak said.
After some sort of verbal dispute between the two groups, at least one suspect in the other group shot at the victim.
The suspects, described only as two or three white or Hispanic males, fled in a white Honda Odyssey, Andraychak said.
Anyone who has information about the shooting is asked to call the San Francisco Police Department’s homicide unit at (415) 553-1145 or the anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444, or text information to TIP411.
Dan McMenamin, Bay City News
7:58 AM: A man was fatally shot at a lookout point atop Twin Peaks in San Francisco early this morning, a police spokesman said.
The shooting was reported at about 3:20 a.m. in a parking lot at Christmas Tree Point, a vista point that looks out on downtown San Francisco, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
The victim, a man in his early 20s, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, Andraychak said.
An unknown number of suspects fled in a white van or truck and had not been arrested as of this morning, he said.
The victim’s name is not being released until his family members are notified of the death.
This is San Francisco’s seventh homicide of 2011.
3:47 AM: Police are on the scene of a fatal shooting that took place early this morning atop Twin Peaks in San Francisco, according to police.
A fire dispatcher said that a call requesting medical assistance at the summit of Twin Peaks came in at 3:19 a.m., and that emergency medical personnel were still on the scene as of 3:30 a.m.
An officer at the Police Department’s Park Station, which has jurisdiction over Twin Peaks, confirmed that at least one person was killed in the shooting and that the medical examiner would be called to the scene.
No suspect information was yet available.
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