S.F. dispute over cell phone ends in slaying

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

An argument over a cell phone ended in the shooting death of a man in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood Sunday night and the arrests of two suspects, police said today.

The suspects and the 33-year-old victim, Sylvestri Brown, were arguing on the street on the 900 block of Connecticut Street at about 8:15 p.m. when one suspect pulled out a semiautomatic handgun and shot Brown in the chest, police said.

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1. Thank God someone had a gun

Otherwise this contretemps might have been resolved with fisticuffs and everyone would just walk away when it was over. Now we have a dead body and a couple more tenants for the Graybar Hotel. U!S!A! U!S!A!