A 24-year-old man who was shot late Friday on 16th Street near Albion has died, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Lorenzo Jimenez, a resident of Sacramento, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and later died of his injuries.
A person who was close to the victim said Jimenez was brain-dead by the time he got to the hospital, but that he was kept alive on life support until yesterday so the family could say goodbye.
Police said that prior to the shooting there was a physical altercation involving the victim and multiple suspects. The fight broke out over the fact that Jimenez was not from San Francisco, according to the woman close to Jimenez, who declined to be identified.
Jimenez was with several friends inside the Double Dutch bar when he was confronted by five to ten men, police said in a statement seeking the public’s help in finding the suspects.
“After leaving the bar, Jimenez was viciously beaten by this group of men in an unprovoked attack. During the attack, one of the assailants produced a handgun and shot Jimenez, leaving him mortally wounded,” the report states.
“He wasn’t a troublemaker. It was just kids trying to be cool,” said the woman who was close to Jimenez, adding that he worked throughout the week at a club in the city.
“It’s hard because we didn’t expect any of this to happen,” she said. “We feel angry because there was no reason for it and sad because he’s no longer with us.”
The gang task force and the criminal investigative unit have been reviewing surveillance footage from nearby security cameras. Many residents were shocked that the violent incident happened in a heavily trafficked corridor at a time when many people are out and about in the neighborhood, visiting bars and restaurants.
“It’s getting scary,” said Linda, who declined to give her last name. After Friday’s shooting, she quit her job near Civic Center because she was afraid to walk home from BART at night. This is the second late-evening shooting this year along the busy 16th Street corridor.
“He had the biggest heart I’ve ever seen in my life,” said the woman who was close to Jimenez. He was very close to his family, she said, and is survived by his parents and two siblings.
“It’s crazy to think he’s not here, because he kept a lot of people together.”
This is the Mission’s third homicide this year.
No suspects have been identified. Police believe there are many in the area who may have witnessed the incident or seen the suspects. Anyone with information is being asked to call the confidential tip line at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 (847411) with “SFPD” in the subject line.
The Surenos are at it again.
Listen people. Nortenos are a hispanic street organization indegenous to Northern California and especially the Bay Area.
Nortenos means Northerners of California. The Nortenos have been here for well over 50 years and can trace their roots to the United Farm Workers union movement with Cesar Chavez and the radical politics of the 1960′s especially within minority groups(Black panthers, Brown Beretts and so on)
The Surenos are a group of gangsters indegenous to Southern California but especially LA. Surenos means Southerner of California and work for the Mexican Mafia.
Since the 1990′s orders have come from high ranking Sureno/Mexican Mafia prison gang members to move into Northern California
and to take Nor Cal by force from the Nortenos.
This is whats been happening and is the major drive of violence in the Mission District and eles where.
People in the loop call it the ” Sureno invasion”. Nortenos are on the defense trying to hold down the fort so to speak.
Knowing this, that Nortenos are usually native born San Fransicans and Bay Areaens and that Surenos are usually native to Los Angeles and even 3rd world countries where the Sureno invasion is already in full force(El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico).
Knowing this, that Surenos are the agitators of violence from an outside community, why doesn’t the SFPD focus of removing the small but very violent group of Surenos that exisit in the City instead of targeting the thousands of native Nortenos who call SF home.
Why are we tolerating Los Angeles gangs in San Francisco?
In the 1980′s the Bloods and Crips try’d to move into SF’s black community to establish themselves here but were met by fierce resistence by the locals. Now in the 2000′s Los Angeles is sending us another wave of gangs that are trying to establish a foothole in our community, in our City. These are the Surenos. We as a City, as a community most stand together and unite and do anything we can to get rid of the Surenos/Mexican Mafia before we are just as gang infested as LA.
The surenos number in the low hundreds in SF and the SFPD should step up there efforts in targeting them and sending them back to Los Angeles or their 3rd world country of origin.
I am not a Norteno but I am from the Mission District and I am latino so I understand the politics of whats going on right now and frankly thats what the violence in the Mission has been about in the last 20 years, The native San Francisco population resisting the LA Sureno invasion.
Well no longer shall this inside knowledge be kept only in the streets or in law enforcement circles. Everyone needs to know whats going on because you all live here and are effected by this LA gang invasion.
Tell your, neighbors, board of supervisors and your local SFPD lieutenent that you want the Surenos out of San Francisco NOW!!!!!!!!
Get rid of both Surenos and Nortenos.
I see that they have set-up a tribute to him on the corner of Kearny and Broadway. Anyone know why since the shooting didn’t occur there?
The altercation was outside of the bar and was not in the bar the attackers were not patrons of the bar at any point of the night
That makes more sense than the story that was originally reported, as Double Dutch does not usually have gang members inside. Now, outside is a different story.
So many of these gang-related murders are targeting innocent Latino men. I may be looking in the wrong places, but I don’t hear or read much from the Latino Mission community when this happens. Again, this isn’t a judgement, but simple curiosity. Anyone care to comment?
RIP young man. And to the family I am sorry for your loss. Unfortunately, Lorenzo is just another victim of San Francisco’s policies toward gangs and criminal activities — particularly in the Mission District. The area where this occurred on 16th St. is Sureno territory — aka MS13, a gang well known to Mission Station police. The gang has been operating in the area for a long time, and San Francisco by its policies have largely ignored the problem, for the most part via its Sanctuary City policies. The gang has been a problem for a long time, and the only dent in the problem, which was virtually ignored by SFPD, who actually had a soccer team that played against the MS13 soccer team (not kidding!). The only real impact against the gang in recent years was when ICE came in several years ago and arrested a swath of these gang members. Problems have subsided slightly since then, but it is incredible that a group such as MS13 was tolerated for so long by local officials, and only until the Fed’s came in was anything really done about it.
Many elected officials in San Francisco have continued to support policies that allow this gang to survive and thrive in the area – most notably, former DA Kamala Harris, and of course the “progressive” members of the SF Board of Supervisors who continue to support San Francisco’s “Sanctuary City” policy that has left many victims in its wake (most notably, the Bologna family — virtually an entire family that was gunned down by a beneficiary of the Sanctuary City law), but also many others, such as Gaspar Puch-tzek, another innocent victim.
While many would cry “racism” if anyone ever broaches the subject of abolishing the Sanctuary City policies, the real racism here is that San Francisco progressives continue to allow the regular killing of young Latino men in the Mission, without much of an outcry in the name of “sanctuary” for all, including for those arrested for committing crimes (today) or (before the Bologna family massacre), being convicted of violent crimes.
I’ve seen it many times as an unsuspecting Latino young man is surrounded by a group of MS13 gang members and harassed if not beaten down or worse simply for being Latino, and maybe wearing the wrong color.
Not until the progressive community (and La Raza backers on the issue) recognize that these gang members are not just innocent victims of racist police–but rather ruthless criminals–will innocent young men like this stop dying on the streets.
I agree wholeheartedly with this. As a white male, I get the feeling that I’m not welcome to express these opinions in public, however, lest I be labeled a privileged racist (pretty much a social death-knell in this city). So I don’t. But I certainly don’t think I’m the only one who has these feelings, and I hope that the progressive community in our city starts to think more critically about these Sanctuary City policies. It may sound alright on paper, and been borne out of good intentions, but this egregious leniency towards gang members in the Mission is doing A LOT more harm than good.
The photo of Mr. Jimenez looks like it was taken inside of Double Dutch, where the fight started. Is this photo from the night of the shooting? Are there other pictures that may have clues?
Lorenzo was a wonderful young man and everyone in Washington who knew him will miss him deeply. I cry at his death and hope and pray that the people responsible for this are found and held accountable. When my son told me about this I just couldn’t help but say one of my babies is lost and gone. He was like our own and will be missed by everyone here. We also hold his family in the deepest regard and send our deepest regrets and sympathy.