Two people were shot dead Sunday night near the Embarcadero, a popular tourist spot on San Francisco’s waterfront, city police said.
Officers arrived on Beach and Stockton streets shortly before 7 p.m. and found two people with gunshot wounds, police said. The victim was taken to hospital. Police had no information about their condition.
There was little information about Sunday night’s incident, but San Francisco police said two vehicles were believed to have been involved in the shooting.
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