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Suspect arrested in Monday night Bernal Heights murder

San Francisco Police arrested a man this morning in connection with a murder that took place last night in Bernal Heights. Around 9:30 PM, SFPD officers were called to the 400 block of Franconia Street, just west of Highway 101, for a report of shots fired.

Officers found a 28-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head inside a house. The man was pronounced dead at the scene – according to the San Francisco Medical Examiner, the victim’s identity is being withheld pending notification of kin. Media reports have identified the victim as Richard Ray Fowler.

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Murder in Bernal Heights, non-fatal shooting in the Mission Thursday PM

An 18-year old man was shot to death in a drive-by shooting on Alemany Boulevard in Bernal Heights shortly after noon on Thursday, and a 48-year-old man was wounded by gunfire on Mission and 18th Street later that evening. Kevin Hall, an 18-year-old San Francisco resident, was identified as the slain man by the Medical Examiner’s office this morning.

Hall’s killing is San Francisco’s 32nd murder of 2011.

According to San Francisco Police, Hall and another man were driving in a faded red Buick East on Alemany Boulevard around 12:30 PM. While stopped at the intersection of Alemany and Putnam Street, a silver, 2-door sedan pulled up alongside them. The passenger in the sedan, a black man wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt got out, walked up to the passenger window of the Buick and fired at Hall. Though his companion drove him to San Francisco General Hospital, Hall died from gunshot wounds.

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