Police vehicles with flashing lights are parked on a dimly lit street at night.
Police cars. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan.

San Francisco police are investigating a fatal shooting in the South of Market neighborhood that occurred early Wednesday.

Officers responded to a shooting at 1:30 a.m. on the 100 block of Sixth Street, according to a police department press release. Upon arrival, officers found a victim with gunshot wounds and rendered aid.

Paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, where the victim was pronounced dead.

Police announced the arrest of a suspect in a statement Thursday. According to the statement and jail records, police booked 33-year-old Siaosi Aleamotuay of San Francisco in the San Francisco County Jail on Wednesday, on a first-degree murder charge.

Police arrested Aleamotuay at around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a department statement — about eight hours after police responded to the scene.

This story was updated on March 5 with news of the suspect’s arrest.

Sarah Hopkins reports on SoMa, Mission Bay and other matters for Mission Local.

With a background in science writing, she has reported on environmental justice, climate change, technology and intersections between science, politics and law. She earned a master's degree from MIT's science journalism program in 2024.

Her reporting has appeared in the Guardian, Inside Climate News and Undark Magazine, among other publications. She is fluent in Spanish.

You can reach her securely on Signal @sarah.270.

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  1. Sixth Street has always had a strange mixture of criminals and as well as plenty of normal working people walking on it.

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