Multiple San Francisco Police Department sources tell Mission Local that San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was today shot during a botched Union Square robbery attempt. Several shots were purportedly fired, with one hitting the 23-year-old in the chest.
Pearsall purportedly fought with his attacker, who was also shot during the struggle. Mission Local is told that both the assailant and the gun are now in police custody.
A police source told Mission Local that the attacker was shot in the hand or wrist during the struggle over the gun. Pearsall purportedly took a gunshot to the chest, which did not hit his major organs.
In 2017, then-49ers Ray-Ray Armstrong and Reuben Foster out-thought and out-ran a pair of would-be armed robbers after leaving a club near today’s incident.
Despite the shocking and very public nature of Pearsall’s shooting, San Francisco’s violent crime rates are low, and decreasing: Crime is down 33 percent so far this year compared to the same period last year, and crime rates in general are on a years-long decline after a brief post-pandemic bump.
This is a breaking story and will be updated as more information comes in.
This punk came from Tracy (which I wish more press would mention). So another crime that gets reported about “San Francisco” was, in fact, perpetrated by a criminal from somewhere else. I’m not a “lock ’em up” guy, but in this situation the D.A. needs to prosecute aggressively and send a message that criminals will not get a wrist slap if they come to SF to commit crimes.
Hopefully no juvenile court for this thug. Idiots like this don’t belong on the streets. Sad truth but some people do belong in prison.
Thanks NRA /s
I hope this is the incident that wakes up anyone on the fence between the pro-crime Boudin crowd and the rest of us.
Maybe this will be the inciting incident that gets SFPD back on the streets, patrolling, rather than lingering in their stations, enjoying each other’s company. J/K, that’ll never happen.
You are ignorant. Cops heard the shots and were within 30 seconds from the shooting. The shooter was caught on the same block of where the shooting occurred.
Unbelievable. It’s the cop’s fault that some thug shot a citizen? There’s a deficit of something like 700 officers in the department. You’d think if you could get paid 6 figures and hide in the precinct there’d be people knocking down doors to apply. Nobody wants that job because of idiots like you Stephen. You don’t need to defund the police anymore. You’re just doubling the salaries of the existing cops. That must make you happy. Glad to know crime is down 33 percent too. I feel warm and fuzzy just thinking about those numbers