MAN, 44, FATALLY SHOT NEAR TROLLEY STATION

Homicide detectives were investigating the fatal shooting of a 44-year-old man Friday night near a Lincoln Park trolley station, police said.

Witnesses flagged down police officers just after 7 p.m. near the 47th Street Station reporting that a fight left a man on the ground nearby, San Diego police homicide Lt. Matt Dobbs said.

Officers found the victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound, Dobbs said. Officers and medics rendered aid, including CPR, but he died at the scene. His name was not released.

The shooting occurred in a cul-de-sac on the south side of the station’s platform.

The homicide lieutenant said he did not know what led up to the shooting, but that witnesses at the scene directed officers to the yard of a nearby home, where police took a “person of interest” into custody.

Video footage from Onscene TV showed heavily armed officers arresting the man behind the home on nearby Hartley Street, just north of the trolley tracks in the Chollas View neighborhood.

For several minutes, the officers stood back while the man was face down in the grass with a helicopter’s spotlight illuminating him. Then six officers — including one with a rifle, one with a shield and one handling a police dog — hurried toward the man and handcuffed him.

The name of the 34-yearold man was not released. He was being held for questioning, and police said they “do not believe any suspects are outstanding at this time.”

Dobbs said investigators recovered a firearm at the scene.