Potrero Hill, San Francisco

Officers responded to the 700 block of Missouri on a report of a shooting.  When they arrived, they found bullet casings on THE SOUTHERN end of the block and a car with blood in the drivers seat crashed into some parked cars on the northern end of the block.  A few minutes later, deputy sheriffs at SFGH reported that a shooting victim had been brought into the hospital. The victim, a well known Potrero Hill gang member was pronouced dead within a few minutes of his arrival at the emergency room.

A witness told police that the victim was sitting in the car when two African American men drove up in a red Dodge 4 door truck with dark tinted windows.  The passenger got out of the TRUCK AND shot the victim several times.  The victim’s car then rolled down the hill until it struck the parked cars.

The shooter is described as an African American man in his 20’s, 5’8 with a muscular build and a dark complexion.  If you have any information about the truck or the suspects, contact the homicide bureau.

Sunday, August 27, 2006, 5:30 AM, 700 block of Missouri, Homicide (case # 060912097):