Five days into 2012, San Jose on Thursday recorded its first homicide of the year after a shooting hat may have been gang-related.

Officers found an unidentified man who had been shot on the 200 block of Alexander Avenue, just east of Interstate 680, around 8:30 p.m., police said. Paramedics gave him an ambulance ride to Regional Medical Center, where he died about a half-hour later.

No arrests have been made and police had no immediate suspect descriptions.

No further details were released Thursday, but detectives say the shooting may have been gang-motivated.

It was the first homicide in the city since Dec. 30, when police say Sagal Sadiq used a machete to hack her wife's mother to death in Willow Glen -- the 41st killing of 2011.

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