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Man shot to death in Bernal Heights
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, August 14, 2006

(08-14) 14:38 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police are hoping that surveillance cameras posted at a Bernal Heights public housing project will help them solve the slaying of a 28-year-old man who was gunned down between buildings there early today.

Travis Williams, a suspected drug dealer with a long criminal history, was shot repeatedly shortly before 6 a.m. in between two buildings on the 900 block of Ellsworth Street.

San Francisco police Inspector Dennis Maffei said Williams was known to sell narcotics in the area where he was attacked.

"We are following up with the cameras," he said. "We don't know if it was caught on tape or not.''

Williams was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital.

In June, San Francisco police announced that San Francisco's fledgling program to post video cameras in crime-plagued neighborhoods had paid off for the first time with the arrest of a man suspected of shooting a 13-year-old girl in the same housing project.

Bennie Powell, 21, was arrested on attempted murder charges Tuesday night in the April 27 shooting, which left the unidentified victim hospitalized for two days.

Police said a review of the tape helped cement the case against Powell.

E-mail Jaxon Van Derbeken at jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com.