CORRECTION: In the third incident, we originally reported that the suspects used the baseball bat and injured the victim. Upon further inspection it appears, the victim used the baseball bats on the suspects and one was sent to the hospital after his arrest. We will update this story with more details as they become available.
Three assaults with baseball bats left two people in critical condition and two more injured this weekend, according to police crime recap information.
The first assault occurred Friday night at 8:13 p.m. at 24th street and Potrero Avenue. A 36-year-old man and four teenagers had gotten into a fight. One of the teenagers grabbed a baseball bat and hit the victim in the head with it before fleeing on foot with the other two youths.
The victim suffered lacerations on his scalp and a possible head injury, and was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with life threatening injuries. No arrests have been made.
Sunday morning at 1:50 at 21st and Mission, a fight broke out between five women in their twenties and a 25-year-old man. Officers on patrol in the area noticed people gathered on the sidewalk yelling, and witnessed one woman fall to the ground. Upon closer inspection, they saw a man attacking the women with a baseball bat.
Two of the women were transported to San Francisco General Hospital with lacerations on their heads, while the other three refused medical transportation. The man with the bat, 25-year-old San Francisco resident Charles Gulley, was arrested and booked on 3 charges of assault with a deadly weapon. One other man was detained and then released at the scene.
At a restaurant on 24th street near Mission at 5:11 p.m. on Sunday, three men in their late twenties had entered the restaurant when one of them began yelling. When he was asked to leave, the man threw a glass bottle, which struck a wall near the man who had asked him to leave.
A second man left the restaurant, and a second suspect threw a glass bottle at him as well, though this one also shattered on the wall. The restaurant owners then hit the suspects with a baseball bat, and one man was struck twice and transported to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening head injuries. All three suspects were arrested during the course of a subsequent investigation.
Police say the crimes are not related in any way.
Crime is trauma and the county offers different services. Here is a link to a page of services.
Victims of violent crime can also contact the Trauma Recovery Center at UCSF.
Both your report of the 24th Street incident, and that in the Examiner, seem to place the baseball bat in the hands of the three guys (charged) who were engaged in some kind of fracas with the restaurant people. I assume that is what the police report says. I watched the part of this noisy fracas that took place outside the restaurant. I have no doubt that the baseball bat appeared on the scene there in the hands the woman from the restaurant and that she was using it vigorously on one of the men outside.
I did not see what started any of this; I did see the male restaurant worker holding his own and then losing ground a fight with the street guys. It seemed that at that point the woman appeared with the bat.
Just in the interests of accuracy.
I was not there but the person that got hit in the head is a good friend of mine and hr is all messed up …. the police think that the three guys pulled the bat which isn’t true . The owner of the restaurant the lady was the person with the weapon and she is not in jail. … that’s. Attempted murder she…need to pay for what she did so if anyone witnessed it please come forward.. send me a text at 1-408-4176680 ty and GOD BLESS . . .
Seth, thanks for letting us know. Updated information from police indicates that the restaurant owner did indeed use the bat on the suspects, at least one of whom was injured. I’m following up on this story and will report more fully, and I’ve also made a correction.
Jan, many thanks for sharing this. I’d be very interested in getting your complete account of the incident. Maybe you could shoot me an email at laura.wenus(at)missionlocal.com?
Same Charles Gulley as this? http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Charles-Gulley-3297057.php