Police said today that the 24-year-old victim in the early-morning shooting Saturday at 17th and Mission streets died from gunshot wounds two hours later at San Francisco General Hospital.
By noon today, friends and family had erected a memorial to the victim, Aldo, known as Trigger. No one knew, or would give, his last name.
Sage burned and a dozen candles guarded the victim’s image: the face of a handsome young man smiling and throwing a finger, seemingly in jest. A few flowers decorated the altar on the northwest corner of Mission Street.
“He was just a real good person,” said one friend. Another added, “Basically, he was like everyone else.”
The incident took place at around 2 a.m. When police arrived on the scene, the victim was lying in the middle of the street. He was still alive, and was taken to the hospital, where he died at around 4:30 a.m., said Sgt. Michael Andraychak.
One witness told police he saw a black SUV leaving the scene.
Friends said the victim was very young, maybe 22 or 23 years old. “He was just a normal guy,” said a third young man at the memorial, where most of the visitors declined to talk. “Everyone is still in shock.”
The gang task force has been brought into the investigation, but so far there are no suspects and no one knows if the shooting was gang-related.
Sgt. Andraychak said police do not think there is any connection between the shooting and a stabbing at 1:50 a.m. Saturday morning at 16th and Mission.
The 17th Street corner of Mission has seen several incidents in the last year, including a drive-by shooting on Feb. 7 at the same spot. There was also a triple shooting in August of 2010.
The SFPD’s anonymous tip line is 415-575-4444.
“Sage burned and a dozen candles guarded the victim’s image: the face of a handsome young man smiling and throwing a finger, seemingly in jest”
Wrong.
In the flip-a-bird pic he isn’t smiling.
Might want to re re-write.
TC: Thank you. There are two photos – in one the victim is smiling. In the other he is not. Best, Lydia
ITS SAD HOW PEOPLE TRY TO PRETEND AND NOT POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS, DUDE WAS A SURENO, HE PROBABLY GOT KILLED BY NORTENOS OR SOME OF HIS OWN, THE PEOPLE YOU INTERVIEW ARENT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT DUDE, THE POTRERO HILL SHOOTING IS PROBABLY RELATED TO THIS ALSO, THERE IS A NORTENO GANG NEAR THAT AREA, DUDE GETTING STABBED ON 16TH IS PROBABLY CONNECTED TO ALL THIS, PEOPLE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO TELL THE PRESS AND COPS AND A MAJORITY OF IT IS BS, I MYSELF AM A FORMER NORTENO, BORN AND RAISED ON THE 24TH STREET SIDE OF THE MISION, IN MY DAYS, THINGS WERE MORE VIOLENT, LIKE BACK IN THE DAYS WS 18TH STREET (THEY KICKED IT @ GARFIELD PARK 25TH AND HARRISON, THEY’RE NAMED AFTER THE ORIGINAL GANG FROM LOS ANGELES), 11ST STREET @ PRECITA PARK, IN THOSE DAYS, 19TH STREET, EDDY STREET AND MS DIDNT EXIST, THEY CAME ABOUT AFTER MEXICAN BANGERS WERE JUMPED OUT FROM 22B(22ND AND BRYANT NORTENO GANG MADE UP OF MOSTLY CENTRO AMERICANOS) AND CREATED 19TH STREET, THAT WHOLE AREA BELONGED TO A NORTENO GANG KNOWN AS LNS, THEN LNS MOVED TO 24TH AND MISION, AFTER 18TH ST GOT DESTROYED BY 22B, HALF BECAME MS (THEY ARENT A SEPERATE GANG, THEY’RE SURENOS AND CONTRARY TO WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE, THEY WERE CREATED IN DOWN TOWN LOS ANGELES ON PICO AND UNION) AND THE OTHER HALF BECAME NS 18TH ST SAN MATEO (NORTENOS), 11ST BECAME EDDY STREET SURENOS AND THE REST LEFT THE GANG, SO, EDUCATE YOURSELVES, I DONT KNOW DUDE AS FAR AS HOW HE WAS AS A REGULAR PERSON, LOSS OF LIFE, TRAGIC AS IT IS, IS A NATURAL THING WHEN YOU BANG, MY HEART GOES OUT TO HIS PARENTS, GANG LIFE WILL ONLY DIE WHEN LIFE CEASES TO EXIST, I TURNED MY LIFE AROUND WHEN I BECAME A MARINE AND FOUGHT ALONGSIDE GUYS I WOULD’VE KILLED OR WOULD’VE KILLED ME IN THE STREET, JUST CAUSE OF A COLOR, YOU LEARN TO LET GO OF IGNORANT HATRED, MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY, LIFE IS PRECIOUS, NO MATTER YOUR AGE.
You all have a gang war happening in your area. X4 on X3. Get out there and report it, and follow up on the Potrero Hill shooting as well, it’s likely to be related.
This has been brewing since the fall and now bodies are dropping. Stop treating your crime reporting like an afterthought and put bodies on this.
Here’s an important question: isn’t this the sort of crime that Norteno injunction put down on the southern part of the Mission supposed to cure? How do things look a few years on? Ask deeper questions, look at the attempts to quash this sort of violence, and see what happened to the folks named in that injunction.
Aldo was Sur. If he wasn’t validated, he sure as hell associated with Trece folk. Probably why he got shot. Ask some serious questions of SFPD’s GTF and residents – all it will take is a week or two off from restaurant reviews…
This is deeply troubling; it almost my front door (again!). A young guy is dead and it’s a tragic waste and it’s only steps away from my home. In so many ways this area is great and at the same time, more murders have happened here in the last few months than the rest of the City combined. Seems like a gang on gang thing given the bandana colors on the memorial; how do you address that if you live here? I guess we try to stay out of the crossfire and not accidently wear the wrong colors. BTW, anyone know what colors not to wear?
In reply to “what colors not to wear”. I am a former gangbanger. I say wear what ever your little heart desires. I do now, and it is so liberating being that I would only wear a couple of colors before. If you really want to get technical, blue is the mission district 22nd to 16th, and the tenderloin also. Red is for 24th to army(ceasar chavez). Keep in mind that this a latino thing,but just as anywhere,innocent people often pay the ultimate price because they’re wearing the wrong color in the wrong neighborhood.
ACTUALLY THE SURENO “SIDE” AND NORTENO SIDE DONT HAVE A DIVISION, THERE’S A NORTENO GANG ON 21ST AND ALABAMA, 22ND IS NOT SURENO TURF, IT STARTS ON 2OTH, THE UPPER SIDE OF MISION STREET FROM PART OF 21ST ALL THE WAY TO THE DALY CITY CITY SIDE OF MISION STREET, IS ALL NORTENO TERRITORY, FROM ALL THE NORTENO MISION GANGS, TO 30TH STREET GANG FROM BERNAL HEIGHTS, TO E-MOB FROM THE EXCELSIOR AND ALL THE DALY CITY GANGS
He died. Update the story.
Thank you for your help. I got the call-back from police when I was out and just got back. IF you have any other information, please let us know. Best, Lydia
DID YOU GO TO MCATEER BACK IN THE DAYS?, LIKE MID 90’S?
miss chavez, did you go to mac??
No, I graduated from high school in 1969. Best, Lydia