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Man calls National City police, admits to shooting death

Officers arrived at the scene and found a man with numerous gunshot wounds lying in the street, the sergeant said.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — An 18-year-old San Diego man was arrested on suspicion of murder Sunday after turning himself in to police and admitted to a shooting that he said was done in self-defense.

The shooting occurred at about 4 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of East 20th Street, said Sgt. Vincent Fernando of the National City Police Department.

Officers arrived at the scene and found a man with numerous gunshot wounds lying in the street, Fernando said. Paramedics arrived and rushed the victim to a hospital, where he died.

The name of the victim was not immediately released, pending notification of next of kin.

"Shortly after the shooting, a subject, later identified as Israel Moreno Jr., 18-year-old San Diego resident, called the police to notify authorities that he had just shot someone in National City," Fernando said.

"Moreno claimed that the shooting was in self-defense. Moreno voluntarily came to NCPD on his own and met investigators."

Moreno was booked into the downtown San Diego Central Jail at 4 p.m. Sunday on a first-degree murder charge, according to jail records. He was scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the South Division Court in Chula Vista.

Anyone with information on the shooting was asked to call the NCPD Communications Center at 619-336-4411.

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