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It was just before 6 p.m. on Nov. 30, the long Thanksgiving weekend over, and on South 45th Street near Newton Avenue, the month was about to end with a sound that has become increasingly common across San Diego this year: gunshots.
Two men standing on the sidewalk in the Skyline neighborhood were shot when a light-colored sedan drove by, stopped momentarily, and someone inside opened fire. One 44-year-old man was hit in his head; another, 29, hit in the arm. Both survived.
Those were the final gunshots in a month that saw a shooting somewhere in the city about once every three days. The incident on South 45th Street was not unusual, but was part of a larger phenomenon in San Diego this year.