Day laborer identified as S.F. homicide victim
(01-07) 16:41 PST SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man fatally shot Sunday was a 19-year-old day laborer who died as he tried to make his way home, police said Thursday.
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Jose Luis Hernandez-Gomez was found at 2:34 a.m. in front of 500 Naples St. in the city’s Excelsior district. Police believe he was shot about a block away and managed to stagger to one door from the home on Naples where he rented a room.
Police have no witnesses to the shooting, and no arrests have been made.
Investigators said Hernandez-Gomez had a work permit that assisted in identifying him. He had no criminal record.
Hernandez-Gomez had been in the city about four months and came from Mexico.
“We do not know the motive yet – it might have been a robbery, it might have been random, it might have been in retaliation for something else that was happening in the Excelsior,” said Inspector Kevin Jones of the homicide detail.
Police recovered Hernandez-Gomez’s cell phone, but they have not been able to learn much about him. He was the city’s first homicide victim of 2010.
E-mail Jaxon Van Derbeken at jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com.