A man was injured in a broad-daylight shooting yesterday, police report. He was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The 27-year-old man was towing a car that had caused a traffic jam on Alabama Street between 25th and 26th Streets at around 3:45 p.m. The suspect drove up alongside the victim and shot him, according to police. The...
San Francisco is sandwiched between two major earthquake faults. You can’t see them. But that doesn’t mean they’re not there. Some fault lines lie deep beneath the earth. But some are man-made; earlier this month, one of the latter variety ruptured in Dolores Park. A confrontation near the footbridge over the J-Church tracks at 19th St. culminated in a brazen,...
A shooting has left a man in life-threatening condition Tuesday morning, police report. The 24-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk at 26th Street and South Van Ness Avenue just after 2 a.m. when he was shot by an unknown suspect. He was transported to the hospital in life-threatening condition, while the suspect remains at large. No suspect description was...
Police reported two assaults that took place in the Mission over the weekend. The first, which led the victim to lose consciousness, occurred just before 2 a.m. on Sunday. Two men, one aged 43 and the other of unknown age, were standing outside a business at 19th and Mission streets when two more men, aged 25 and 26, engaged in...
Police responded to a report of shots being fired at 12:14 a.m. on Friday. Officers found casings at 21st Street and Treat Avenue. A vehicle had reportedly been seen fleeing the scene with six suspects. No arrests have been made, and no injuries were reported. Robbery At 9:45 p.m. on Thursday, a 28-year-old woman was sitting outside a café on...
A 34-year-old man was transported to the hospital after a shooting early Thursday morning. According to police, three men approached the victim from behind at 21st and Capp streets around 1:15 a.m. As the victim turned around to face the three men, they shot him with a handgun. No arrest has been made. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Recent calls for...
An 18-year-old woman was briefly held captive in a man’s car in an incident that unfolded on 21st and Folsom streets at 2:03 a.m. on Wednesday. The woman had met up with an unidentified 24-year-old man and gotten into his car, but when she tried to leave, the suspect wouldn’t let her. Eventually the woman spotted some police officers, escaped the...
Police report a 19-year-old man was doing laundry in his apartment complex on Valencia Street between 15th and 16th streets at 9:50 p.m. on Monday when another man, estimated to be in his 20s, came in, and stabbed the man with a knife. The suspect fled the scene in a car, and the victim was transported to the hospital in...
Police report a 64-year-old man was punched on Friday night just before 10 p.m. in the process of a robbery. The victim was approached on Mission Street between 15th and 16th streets by two men, estimated to be in their early 20s. The suspects hit the man, then fled in an unknown direction, and the victim noticed his phone had...
Police report a 29-year-old man was the victim of a skateboard attack Saturday afternoon. At 5:30 p.m., the victim was walking through Potrero del Sol park when two youths, one estimated to be 10 or 11 years old and the other estimated to be 14-16 years old, threw water on the man. The youths then hit the victim with a...
At 2:00 p.m. on Monday police reported a robbery at 16th and Mission St. A 65 year-old man was counting money inside the store he works for when the suspect, a 20 year-old man, punched him, took the money and fled. The victim has no life-threatening injuries. Recent calls for service to police can be found on CrimeMapping. Crime is...
Police report a woman was stabbed Saturday morning at 22nd and Mission streets. The 26-year-old woman asked the man, estimated to be in his 20s, for a ride around 4:20 a.m. The man then demanded the woman’s property, before stabbing her in the stomach with a knife. The suspect then fled in his sedan, while the victim transported herself to...
Police and fire officials responded to a call for service regarding a vehicle engulfed by flames near the intersection of 23rd and South Van Ness streets at 8 p.m. on Thursday. According to fire officials, the fire had originated in a box that was found next to the parked vehicle and had spread over, destroying the vehicle. Police have not...
On Tuesday at 10:07 a.m. police reported that a group of three male juveniles attacked a 36 year-old woman parked on Cesar Chavez and Mission streets with paintball guns. The suspects were shooting at the front of the bus the victim was parked in until she stepped out. At that point the suspects fled and one of them turned around...
On Wednesday morning six cars were found with their windows broken on 22nd Street and South Van Ness Avenue. A street over, at 22nd and Shotwell, two more cars were discovered with smashed windows. For Gary Siegel, owner of the San Francisco Auto Repair Shop Center at 3260 19th St. where one of the vandalized cars is currently being...
