Nine people were shot at 24th Street and Treat Avenue in an apparent drive-by shooting of a party after 9 p.m. on Friday, officials and witnesses said.
All the victims were transported to the hospital and are expected to survive, according to San Francisco police spokesperson Officer Eve Laokwansathitaya. A deputy police chief said that some of the injuries were life-threatening, however.
Laokwansathitaya would not confirm that the shooting was a drive-by, but said it was a “targeted and isolated incident.” She did not say whether police were searching for multiple suspects.
According to an attendee of a party on the corner, the shooter fired into a crowd of about 20 people that had gathered outside Mission Skateboards, a skate shop on the corner that was hosting an outdoor party featuring a DJ, a street taco stand, and “Made in the Mission” merchandise.
“Everybody was chilling, listening to music, and you just hear some little bottle rockets, some little firecrackers or something,” said the attendee, who declined to provide their name. “And then, all of a sudden, you see people just start running.”
The attendee said the crowd scattered and he saw multiple people on the ground, having been shot. He said others were “shot in the leg” and “limping around.”
“I been shot before, it kinda brings back memories like — ‘Oh, shit,’” he said.
The party was the sixth anniversary of Mission-based Dying Breed, a clothing brand and store that shares the Mission Skateboards space at 3045 24th St. Attendees had been gathered inside and outside the store for several hours, according to social media posts, spilling onto the sidewalk and listening to Bay Area hip-hop while eating ceviche or chopped cheese sandwiches. The event was part of a series of recurring “Frisco Friday” night parties.
Several attendees went to Pop’s Bar at 24th and York streets, five blocks from the shooting site, immediately afterwards. Most declined to speak about what happened.
One man could be overhead saying “I survived a gun shootout” outside the bar, where some party attendees waited to retrieve their cars from the taped-off police scene. When asked about the event, he declined to comment.
“I’m not trynna be rude, but that’s just how we do,” he said.
Police said the victims were immediately transported to the hospital, but it is unclear if all nine were taken to the hospital directly from the scene of the shooting.
In a tweet, SFPD Deputy Chief Raj Vaswani said the victims were mostly men in their 20s, but that they included a 19-year-old woman and two men in their 30s; one victim’s age and gender was unconfirmed. He said their injuries ranged from minor to life-threatening.
“When officers arrived on scene, they located multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers summoned medics to the scene to treat and transport the victims to local area hospital,” the police said in a statement. Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, blocks away, is the city’s go-to trauma center.
In video footage reviewed by Mission Local, multiple people could be seen on the ground while medics attended to them.
“I just saw at least seven people on the ground, bleeding,” said one police officer on the scene.
One woman who lives near the intersection and declined to provide her name said she saw a car that appeared to be a Toyota drive away, and that one of the people who was shot hopped into the car.
Another resident, who gave his first name as Robert, said he heard screaming when he arrived home.
“I had just driven up and I was getting my glasses. I thought it was fireworks; then I heard screaming.”
An employee working at a restaurant at the intersection said that after the shooting in front of the Mission Skateboards corner, one man had run towards their corner across the street.
“There was this guy limping, sorta,” he said.
“I guess he ran from there, and then he fell down here,” his colleague said, gesturing outside the restaurant.
The corner is a popular gathering spot on the weekends, when several stores at the intersection host gatherings during the evenings.
Police had blocked the streets between Harrison and Folsom streets, and were not allowing any pedestrians or cars through.
Immediately after the shooting, a self-driving Cruise was caught on camera at a standstill on Folsom Street as fire trucks and ambulances raced to the intersection — the latest of several incidents in which autonomous cars have driven into emergency scenes.
A police officer standing next to the car, presumably speaking to a company dispatcher, shouted that the car was “blocking emergency medical and fire,” though a company spokesperson later wrote that emergency vehicles drove around the stalled car.
“I gotta get it out of here now,” the officer yelled.
Additional reporting by Joe Rivano Barros.
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There seems to be an uptick in gang violence. Whenever I pose the question to precinct captains they never give me a straight answer. They won’t even use the word “gang” to describe perpetrators in the Western Addition after “so called” targeted shootings. So my question is what do we know about the organized gangs operating non stop in San Francisco?
Great reporting. I hope to see more information about the company “Dying Breed,” that sponsored the party and the 24th Street Association.
Setting the tone for these kind of events can make a big difference. Do they try to keep advertising for these events focused on Mission Locals or do they emphasize getting large numbers of people driving in for the event?
Inconsiderate Cruise car, how fitting in typical Bay Area fashion: Get in the way, stay in the way
We’re people shot by small hand guns ?
Was it drive by shooting and how many shooters in the car Di the drive off to go to east bay .?
We need to know what to watch out for
I live on Harrison and walk up tom24 th to shop and eatout a press conference
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Be careful when walking in the evening another of my neighbors about my age
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For mixed fish platter or a fried oyster sandwich for dinner but wouldn’t go out if he felt it was dangerous
So my self and some of my neighbors would like more information on what happened Thank you for time
Eleni. Great job in reporting this story.
Thank goodness we have the Mission Local website. We’d be lost without them.
Great reporting. By the way, it pains me to see mission Local continue it to write random, passive aggressive hit pieces on the DA. Would you want her to prosecute these people if they were shooting up your block?
I’m so sorry for these people who were injured, I pray everyone will be ok , I am so sad that someone was not raised to respect others and if found the shooters should get the maximum sentence. And also be forced to pay all families for the medical bill and for pain and suffering they encountered.
Yes indeed. Agree.
Thanks for the reporting, but a key piece of info is missing: suspects at large or apprehended? (I found the answer at other news sources.)
Super impressed that you got so much info so quickly. No substitute for on the ground reporting.
The ‘skate shop’ has got to go – it was ground zero for last year’s graffiti’ing of the brand new senior center, source of endless noise complaints by neighbors, and now this shooting. Interesting that not one party attendee wants to discuss the ‘party’ – hmmmm.
This corner is vibrant at times, but violent most of the time. It doesn’t seem like the businesses – a tattoo shop, a shitty motorcycle bar, and this skate shop – really care about the community at large. They care about one community, their own cultural one, but they could give two shits about the actual neighborhood as a community. If they did care about the neighborhood community, I don’t think we would see this kind of shit happen.
I have to applaud Mission Local for getting the photo and interviews other news agencies miss. Good for you Eleni. Keep up the good work.