A California street ambassador walking his daily crime deterrence "beat" in San Francisco was fatally shot by a shotgun -wielding man after he asked the individual to stop using drugs outside of a library where children were present, local officials say.

"The suspect didn't like that," Urban Alchemy spokesperson Jess Montejano told reporters this week about UA ambassador Joey Alexander's shooting death last Friday outside of the San Francisco Main Library.

"They exchanged some words, [the suspect] pulled a shotgun out of his bag, and shot him in the torso," Montejano said, according to local CW affiliate KRON .

Cops identified the suspect as 42-year-old Edmund Bowen.

Alexander, 60, had been working for UA as a street ambassador for two years following a 23-year stint in prison.

"That

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