Suspect Meron Tesfamariam, 30, has been booked on homicide charges.

A 48-year-old woman who was a transient in the Mission District and known to Mission police officers was found dead Monday at 8:22 a.m. near the corner of 15th Street and San Bruno Avenue, according to police.

After interviewing witnesses and talking with a police officer who knew the victim, police arrested 30-year-old Meron Tesfamariam, a San Francisco resident. He is now in county jail and has been booked on homicide charges, according to police.

Sergeant Eric O’Neal said the case is under investigation. He declined to say how the woman died. We will update the story as we get more information.

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  1. Tom Perkins flies over in his Gulfstream jet on his way to a weekend of babes and Champaign on his mega yacht in Hawaii. He is grumpy the whole flight, because rich people are being mistreated.

    Down below on the city streets, sick, insane and broken people are left to live and die in the open like animals.

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      1. Unfortunately, there’s not a pill for society-rot.

        The only cure is a radical restructuring of our priorities as a nation and the laws to make it happen.

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