Man wearing sunglasses and an LA cap takes a selfie on a pier overlooking a crowded beach and city buildings in the background at sunset.
Sharbel Saker in a 2025 Facebook photo.

Over the weekend, friends of Sharbel Saker, a 34-year-old visiting from Los Angeles, made multiple posts to social media seeking information as to his whereabouts. Saker left Martunis, a piano bar at Valencia and Market streets, around 1 a.m. on Friday, April 3. 

According to Paulina Henderson, a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson, Saker’s body was found that same day near Market and Page, a few blocks away from where he was last seen, though not in the direction he was last reported to be heading. 

At this time, Henderson reports that no foul play is suspected. 

A man in a white t-shirt and shorts sits on rocks at a sandy beach with palm trees and people in the background under a clear sky.
Saker at Laguna Beach, in an undated Facebook photo.

Saker appears to have had deep social ties in San Francisco. According to his LinkedIn,  he moved to the Bay Area around 2018 and worked for several years as the general manager for the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum on Fisherman’s Wharf.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.

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H.R. Smith has reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and is exceedingly fond of local politics.

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