Midday shooting in SF’s Outer Sunset leaves teenager dead

A 16-year-old boy was killed Monday afternoon when someone opened fire on a car he apparently was driving in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, police said.

The teenager, whose name was not immediately released, died at a hospital after being shot in the lower body in the area of Sunset Boulevard, between Kirkham and Lawton streets, just after noon, according to Officer Giselle Talkoff, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department.

Talkoff said it appeared the teenager was driving a white car when someone shot at the vehicle. A passenger in the car was not injured, she said.

A teenager was shot around noon on Monday on Sunset Boulevard between Kirkham and Lawton streets, according to police. A teenager was shot around noon on Monday on Sunset Boulevard between Kirkham and Lawton streets, according to police. Photo: Stephen Lam, Special To The Chronicle Buy photo Photo: Stephen Lam, Special To The Chronicle Image 1 of / 29 Caption Close Midday shooting in SF’s Outer Sunset leaves teenager dead 1 / 29 Back to Gallery

No suspects were immediately identified and the circumstances of the shooting were under investigation, she added.

At the site of the shooting, a crime scene technician examined a white Pontiac with some clothes piled on the hood. The driver’s side of the car was studded with bullet holes, but the windows appeared to be intact.

The shooting happened on a residential block lined with houses in an area that typically doesn’t see much violence.

“It’s extremely unusual and not something we like to see,” San Francisco Police Lt. Kevin Noble said at the scene of the shooting.

But Joe Rihny, who said tools were stolen from the bed of his truck recently, said he’s noticed an uptick in crime in the neighborhood.

“Every day, every day we have problems in the Sunset. Trouble we never used to have,” said Rihny, 62, who has lived in the area for 28 years.

It was the second shooting in San Francisco on Monday.

Shortly before 3 a.m., officers found a 35-year-old man lying in the street at the intersection of Brannan and Eighth streets in the South of Market neighborhood, according to police. The victim, whose name was not released, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Michael Bodley and Filipa Ioannou are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: mbodley@sfchronicle.com, fioannou@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @michael_bodley, @obioannoukenobi