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Man Found Dead In San Francisco's Diamond Heights Neighborhood

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A man was found dead in San Francisco's Diamond Heights neighborhood on Tuesday evening and investigators are treating the case as a homicide, police said Wednesday.

The death was reported about 6:20 p.m. in the 5000 block of Diamond Heights Boulevard.

Officers responded and found the 27-year-old victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner's office was not immediately releasing the man's name.

Police Wednesday morning did not release the victim's suspected cause of death, but said that the department's homicide detail is handling the case.

Anyone with information about the death is encouraged to call the Police Department's homicide detail at (415) 553-1145, its anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or send a tip by text message to TIP411.

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