A shooting has rattled San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood after a man was found dying outside a corner store Thursday evening after being shot in the head.
A man was shot and killed in a shooting in San Francisco 's Tenderloin neighborhood on Thursday, police said.The victim was shot around 6:10 p.m. outside Starlight Market on Ellis and Jones streets, according to a friend who spoke to KTVU on Thursday, but did not want to be identified.The friend told KTVU that he believed the shooting was an unfortunate case of mistaken identity.
"My other friend forgot the black cherries, so we went back into the store to get the black cherries, and on our way out, the one who got shot called us back, but somebody behind us told us not to turn around, and that's when we heard the gun go off," the friend said.A video shared on social media shows a witness saying the victim was walking outside the store when someone put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.
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