Man ID'd as homicide victim in SF Mission District triple shooting

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - A victim in a fatal shooting in San Francisco's Mission District Thursday has been identified as Jaime Poole, 21, a San Francisco resident who was well-known in the neighborhood where the gunfire erupted. 

Two other men, also in their 20's were hit by bullets and taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Thursday night, one was in critical condition the other in serious condition.

Dozens of San Francisco police officers rushed to the call about gunshots at the Bernal Dwellings Apartments complex at 3:20 Thursday afternoon. Police say they found a lot of evidence spread across several blocks at Treat and Kamille, just off Cesar Chavez Street. Crime tape surrounded one black sedan that had a bullet hole.

"Found one victim here. Treated him on the scene. They were also transported to the hospital. That victim unfortunately passed away from his injuries," said .Officer Joseph Tomlinson, a San Francisco Police spokesman.

A spokesman for Zuckerberg San Francisco General hospital says they got the alert at 3:30p.m.

"The victims were all males in their 20's," said Brent Andrew, a Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital spokesman, "We received one victim in an ambulance. Two drove their own vehicles to get here."

As the injured men were rushed inside the hospital, police searched the two vehicles. The hospital followed standard protocol and went on lockdown for more than an hour while police searched for evidence.

At 4 p.m., Poole was pronounced dead at the hospital.

By evening investigators said they were still trying to determine where the shooting happened, looking for bullet casings. Police said they think the shooting is isolated incident.

"We're questioning people, looking for surveillance footage, trying to find anything we can to help us," said Officer Tomlinson.

The crime scene was only a mile away from the hospital, a key factor according to hospital officials, that helped the two other men in this shooting.

"Speed is always a factor in responding to traumatic injury," said Andrew, "We were very much helped in being close to this incident scene in terms of how we were able to intervene with our patients." 

Police said late Thursday night that there was no suspect information and no one had been arrested.