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SFPD Hunt For Suspect In Shooting Inside South of Market Building

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Police in San Francisco were seeking a suspect Friday morning after he shot a 50-year-old man inside a building in the city's South of Market neighborhood.

According to police, the shooting happened just before 9 a.m. in the 600 block of Harrison Street.

At the scene, officers found a 50-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.

Immediately after the shooting, the male suspect fled into a nearby building. Officers have set up a perimeter around the area and were trying to locate the suspect Friday afternoon, police said.

Anyone with information about the shooting or the suspect's whereabouts is asked to call the Police Department's tip line at (415) 575-4444 or to send a tip by text message to TIP411 with "SFPD" at the start of the message.

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