OCEAN BEACH, Calif. (FOX 5/ KUSI)--A man was fatally shot late Wednesday after a confrontation with two other men near Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach, police said.

The shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. in a parking lot next to Hodad’s, the popular Ocean Beach burger restaurant. Officers found the victim on the ground with a gunshot wound to his torso. They attempted life-saving measures, but the man died at the scene.

His name has not yet been released.

Investigators said the altercation began when the victim punched one of the men. The other pulled out a handgun and opened fire before both suspects ran away, heading through an alley toward Santa Monica Avenue.

Witnesses initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks.

“We heard like a couple pops almost kind of like a firework,” sa

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