OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Alameda County Coroner's Office has identified Oakland's 100th homicide victim of the year.

Oakland resident Alphonso Jose Carbajal, 29, who was born in California and worked as a laborer, died after an early morning shooting Monday in the 6400 block of MacArthur Boulevard, according to Dan Apperson of the Coroner's Office.

Responding officers found Carbajal just after 5 a.m., suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He was pronounced dead at 5:13 a.m.

Apperson today reported that Carbajal died of "multiple gunshot wounds."

Carbajal was the 100th person this year claimed by Oakland's staggering homicide rate, which at the same time last year numbered 89. There were 113 murders in the city last year.

Oakland's worst year for murders was 1992, when 175 homicides were recorded. Those numbers started dropping off in the late 1990s, which was part of a national trend at the time, according to Oakland police Lt. Jim Emery.

In efforts to further curb the city's murder rate, Oakland police will continue cooperative patrols and operations with the California Highway Patrol and Alameda County Sheriff's Department, Emery said.

In the longer term, Emery said Oakland police are coordinating a homicide task force with federal agencies including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The task force is doing undercover work to try to reduce the number of homicides, he said.

In addition, Oakland police Chief Richard Word is starting a new program to better coordinate law enforcement within the department itself, determining the best way to deploy resources, Emery said.