17-year-old girl dies in Bayview double shooting

By Emmett Berg, Bay City News Service

March 17, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A 17-year-old girl is dead and a male victim was being treated for a gunshot wound to the leg following a double shooting last night in San Francisco's Bayview district, a police sergeant said.

San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens said someone got out of a car and shot two people who were among others standing on the 5000 block of Third Street near Quesada Avenue around 8:10 p.m.

Gittens said a suspect described only as a 19- to 20-year-old man remained at large. No further description of him or the vehicle he was riding in was immediately available.

Homicide investigators were still questioning witnesses and had notified the San Francisco Police Department's gang task force of the shootings, according to Gittens.

The female victim received a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, Gittens said. The male victim was expected to survive his wounds, he said.

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