SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Police are searching for a teenage boy in connection with a shooting near San Diego's City Heights neighborhood that left a man dead Tuesday morning.
SDPD officers were dispatched to the 3200 block of 40th Street, near Redwood Street, at around 11 a.m. due to a reported shooting in the area.
Families with young children watched as police taped off their neighborhood. Neighbors heard multiple gunshots.
"I saw the pop, pop, pop, pop, pop and I looked over there and I saw one boy go run," said Isabel Trinidad.
A bystander started CPR until paramedics got there.
When officers arrived to find a 35-year-old man lying in front of a home with at least one gunshot wound to the chest.
The victim was taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was not identified.
SDPD Homicide Unit detectives said they believe the suspected shooter is a male 15-17 years old, but no other details were released. It's unclear if the two knew each other.
Neighbors say the area is getting more violent.
"A woman died at the skate park and I live like right in between these two crime scenes and I go walking by myself to school so recently it's been kind of scary," said Belen Lopez.
Belen Lopez is referring to 66-year-old Chi Cao. She was fatally stabbed more than a week ago while on her morning walk less than a half mile away at Central Avenue Mini Park.
Police believe her attacker chose her at random. He's in jail facing a mental competency exam.
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