Gunfire erupted this afternoon on Mission Street between 15th and 16th streets, leaving a man in with life-threatening injuries.
Mission Local is told by bystanders on-scene that a man and a woman were verbally arguing on the street for quite a long time before police showed up to de-escalate the shouting match.
Once police departed, however, the situation purportedly turned sour, and a shooting occurred. People in the area tell Mission Local that the gunfire came shortly before 3 p.m. A man who heard the gunshots says they induced bus passengers to flee the scene.
Police who were nearby at the 16th Street BART Plaza quickly detained two people following the shooting. An eyewitness said one of the detainees was a crying woman who was forced into a police vehicle.
Photos from the scene indicate several shell casings were recovered. Police say the victim incurred life-threatening wounds.
This is a developing story and will be updated as possible.
If you are a tourist from another country like Europe for example, who came to see the murals in the Mission, welcome to the states; you will have a story to tell your kids/friends when back at home about what kind of society is producing this type of behaviors.
Yup!:
“People, you would not believe the horrors of a country that treats it marginal citizens with such brutality;
where your only value is how much wealth you can can create for billionaire oligarchs;
where people who don’t own million-dollar homes are treated like scum;
where the laws are written by billionaire property-owners for their own benefit;
where nearly everyone has a gun;
where police are armed like crazed robot soldiers and their main function is to protect billionaires’ property values;
where medical care is provided through inefficient and exorbitant medical insurance instead of through single-payer universal care that is free at the point of service;
where no one gets a month-long paid vacation like nearly everyone in Europe does; where instead of retiring at age 55 with full benefits like most of us in Europe do, most of them have to work until they die;
where affordable food is over-processed and void of nutrition, and water is saturated with toxic forever chemicals;
where people who need mental health care are treated worse than the lowest animal;
where you main function as a citizen is to consume, go into debt, and then die a miserable death…”
“Gosh, Uncle Fred, what is this awful place?”
“It is called the USA. Don’t go there if you value your life, because they only want your money, and after they have taken all of it, they will leave you to die by the side of the road. As for the murals in the Mission: the people who created them are treated like felons and deported or left to rot in inhumane detention.”
“Thanks, Uncle Fred, we’re going to go to North Korea instead. It’s much more civilized!”
And yet people from all over the world are sneaking in to our country – breaking the law in doing so – because it’s a better life than they might have at home.
Welcome to the real world.
Yes of course…and major Western European cities are SO MUCH CLEANER AND SAFER! No ethnic tension and violence in London, Paris, Brussels, Dublin, etc., etc., etc. Because the woke liberal principles they have pursued in past decades have been so phenomenally successful!!!
You would not last a minute in North Korea, they would feed you to hungry dogs for their entertainment.
Has Jackie woken up from her nap?
Glad someone is asking where our actual elected official who is responsible for these things has been during this entire fiasco at 16th & Mission. Should be all hands on deck after two shootings in a week next to an elementary school. It’s her job to be fighting for our literal lives with the rest of the city government and police department for increased safety measures for residents.
Learn how supervisors actually do their jobs please.
Such anti-indigenous, Latinx misogynist racism!
Wasn’t there a shooting a month ago across the street at night?
Don’t get it. The police have a large mobile police SUV on that corner, all they had to do is put down their coffee and donuts down, and arrest the people that were arguing before it, turn into gun fire.
There was a shooting Monday on this same block.
A dead body a week keeps the gentrifiers away. Low income people deserve only the worst.
Better multiple murders than those nasty “gentrifiers”…. How dare they make money and have a good life!
Yes
They should just close the street and let children play there instead, say “advocates”
No violence possible!
I arrived at 16th and Mission about a month ago to find part of it yellow-taped off and learned that someone was shot dead there, but if criminals shoot each other I don’t have a big problem with it as long as they don’t hit innocent bystanders.
We should’ve sent unarmed crisis intervention specialists to help everyone hug it out. A nice, firm bear hug would’ve made it clear that one of these people was packing heat and should not be messed with (i.e. be allowed to roam freely with a weapon next to a regional transit hub).
The irony of your comment is that the actual police response here was completely and totally ineffective at preventing that shooting.
What would you want police to do? Arrest someone? That would harm an immigrant community.
Send an actual bear to do the ‘hugging.’ A vicious, hungry one.
A nice firm bear hug wouldn’t have made it clear that one of these people was packing heat and should not be messed with, allowed to roam freely with a weapon if they were in a vehicle that possessed the heat packing weapon .
If only everyone was as thoughtful and empathic as you champ /s
Jake that’s a really insightful and constructive comment! Thanks for your maturity and leadership.
March 2025 SFPD deploys ‘mobile command unit’ to 16th and Mission BART plaza ,for the purpuse to staff it 24/7 to prevent crime, but, literally 50 feet away this happened in the afternoon? But we are supposed to feel safe in Sf ?
I always forget I have a camera,
I came thru 16th and Mission 2pm ish today at end of long walk as always.
It was packed with some new faces who weren’t drunk or bent over with fentanyl.
Really mean looking and a couple in those bolar hats Indians wear and a male and female cop had ventured bravely out to walk toward 17th and as they passed me at Mi Tiera market the sidewalk traffic seem to slow intentionally to slow them as the Indians and others began to trail them wordlessly.
They were reclaiming the territory and the cops were grim as I’ve seen cops and I’ve seen grim.
I was putting my hoodie back on to cover my own white flesh and deciding whether to follow the procession to help the cops if needed or flee or go ahead and buy some bananas.
I was almost out of my thirty-nine cent bananas which is a bad thing.
I surveyed the whole 4 corners scene which seemed to be going from simmering to boil and made my decision.
I went into Mi Tiera and got the bananas.
I salute ML for keeping reporters on the scene long as cops stay cause major violence can sweep over that intersection like a St. Louis thunderstorm in a minute.
I walked back taking Wiese Alley which was clear for a block, save 3 junkies shooting up and here came two guys in a friggin’ golf cart who looking like ‘Silly Hall’ staffers sliding up to the trio and telling them to “Keep moving.” to which they nodded in assent and kept firing up.
I figure by tomorrow morning when Skippy and I reach the rear of the Armory on our daily Trash Trot that they’ll be there where I load orange bags and drag abandoned stage furniture the tweakers bring as building materials for their Narco-Noma colony.
I pile it on the corner where Xavier and Scotty come in their DPW pickups to clear it and give me and Skippy some cover as do the Ohlone Indians who study at the Friendship House.
Tomorrow morning I’m meeting stranger friends of friend Missouri tourists at Manny’s for coffee and I’ll walk them over to see how they think SF’s Mission BART stop compares to the worst of scenes in St. Louis.
There’s a Road Back to Peace the Mayor refuses to take.
Elect our Police Chief and let the attendant Permanent Foot Patrols and Kobans restore the neighborhood’s personal relationship to Mission Precinct.
Otherwise ?
Stranger cops occupying the territory of the most oppressed people can end in only one way and I’m betting the cops blink first.
Like they removed their Kiosks when Willie took over from Dianne.
Go Niners !!
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You only prove my points. Again and again and again.
Stand up work by SFPD, probably hastening gunfire by their intervention techniques, and on the first day of school too!
No problem on this earth that SFPD can’t be blamed for! I hear they botched SFUSD payroll by tasering the servers.
The Magic words here are when police arrived. I thought the police were parked at 16th and Mission 24/7? What do you mean, when they arrived???