A teenage male was shot to death in San Francisco Friday, in what appears to be San Francisco's fourth homicide for 2017.
In a series of tweets, San Francisco Police Department Sergeant Mike Andraychak said that the shooting occurred at 4:35 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Broad and Plymouth Streets in the Oceanview neighborhood.
An 18-year-old male was killed in the gunfire, Andraychak says, declining to provide additional details. Bay City news reports that the victim has been identified as SF resident Josiah Lightfoot.
#SFPD is investigating a shooting homicide that occurred at Broad/Plymouth at approximately 4:35 pm. The victim is a male, age 18.
— SFPDSgtMike (@SFPDSgtMike) January 21, 2017
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That area, Plymouth and Broad Streets, has been the site of at least two other homicides in recent years: In October of 2015, a man was killed in a Sunday morning shooting that also shattered area storefronts, and in October of 2016 a man was killed in a double shooting near that same intersection.
Lightfoot's shooting appears to be San Francisco's fourth homicide on 2017, following the fatal beating of Gabriel Ramirez in the Tenderloin. 41-year-old SF man Abdul Cole was arrested in that case, police say, and was booked into San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of murder.
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