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A man in his 30s was found fatally shot in a parked car in Berkeley today, a police spokeswoman said. A neighbor identified the victim for the Planet as Marcus Mosley Jr., and said that he grew up in Berkeley in the Savo Island Co-op and had attended Berkeley High. 

At about 5:10 p.m., police received reports of possible shots fired in the 2800 block of Milvia Street, just west of Adeline and Russell streets, police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said. 

Berkeley police found the man slumped over the wheel of a parked car in that block. 

Paramedics responded and tried to revive the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, Kusmiss said. 

The man was the city's third homicide victim of the year. 

The reported victim, Marcus Mosley, had been injured in a 2008 incident in Berkeley, when Mosley was shot and his former brother in law, Maceo Smith, was killed. 

Mosley had been involved in a dispute near Durant Avenue and Bowditch and called on Smith for help. After Smith arrived both were shot, Smith fatally. 

There were many witnesses to today's shooting, which took place in broad daylight on a busy street near the "Arnieville" tent city which has been set up by disabled protesters and the busy Berkeley Bowl parking lot. 

Some witnesses who asked that their identity not be published reported that Mosley was shot while in his car, possibly from a black or dark gray vehicle.  

They described hearing five quick shots, followed later by a sixth.  

Other witnesses said that it seemed that the shooters knew the victim and had deliberately shot him. 

Some reported seeing that Mosley had been shot in the head and chest.  

Police cordoned off the crime scene, and a number of police officers with several police cars and motorcycles were still there at 11 p.m. tonight (Friday).