Entries from SFist tagged with 'shooting'
October 13, 2008
According to the scary red font on CBS 5's site, "the Hayward BART station is closed due to a possible shooting, according to a spokesman." Eeps! More to come. Update: The shooting occurred around 1 p.m. Two people were shot. One found inside the station, the other outside. Trains are "rolling through the station but are not stopping."......
Continue Reading "Hayward BART station is closed"October 2, 2008
Near the Crocker Amazon, over on the 700 block of Brunswick Street, one person died and another was injured last night after a bout of gunfire. The two victims, it seems, were inside a car when they were shot. No other information is currently available. (CBS 5)......
Continue Reading "Wednesday Night SF Shooting/Murder"September 18, 2008
A reader sends us info (and several images) on a shooting that occurred early this morning in front of an apartment on Hyde between O"Farrell and Geary streets. Here's all we know so far. I can't find any reports of this anywhere, but last night/early this morning, a man was shot in the doorway of an apartment on hyde st. between o'farrell and geary streets at 1:30am. There was a single shot, no screeching of......
Continue Reading "Hyde Street Shooting"September 7, 2008
Once again, lots of sticky, viscous blood bathed the streets of San Francisco. Let's see, we had a 19-year-old man shot while strolling along 23rd Street and Treat, two people shot inside a car at 23rd and Arkansas Streets, a murder at McAllister and Fillmore in the Western Addition, and it's only Sunday afternoon! This weekend's most recent gun play happened despite an increased police presence in the Mission (which was sparked by this......
Continue Reading "Outsiders Blamed for (Alleged) SF Crime Wave"September 5, 2008
Just a day after Hell's Angels bigwig Mark Guardado was gunned down at 24th Street and Treat Avenue, the Mission/Potrero district again played host to two bouts of gun violence. First, at around 9:45 p.m. on 24th and Utah streets near Jack's Bar, two men were shot and killed. Then, two hours earlier at 18th and Bryant streets, two people sitting in a parked car (along with a 4-month-old child) were shot. The two......
Continue Reading "More Murders Hit the Streets of SF Last Night"August 8, 2008
Remember the lady who was shot several times in her Mission district apartment? Well, the victim, Teresa Sheehan, 56, "lunged at officers with a knife" before officers turned her into the female 50 Cent. According to the Gate, "[t]he officers pepper-sprayed Sheehan, but she continued to verbally threaten them and began lunging at them with a knife," which is when gunfire came into play. Sheehan is expected to survive. (SFGate)......
Continue Reading "Woman Of-A-Certain-Age Shot By SFPD Wielded Knife"August 7, 2008
A 60-year-old woman was sent to the hospital after SFPD officers shot her. Going down over at 15th and Dolores streets, officers were called to an apartment a little after 11 a.m. this morning after a woman was allegedly "making violent threats." According to CBS 5, "there was an altercation and four or five shots were fired." (Why wasn't a taser used instead?) No word yet as to the woman's condition.......
Continue Reading "SF Police Shoot, Wound Old Lady"August 4, 2008
SUNDAY, BAYVIEW: On the 200 block of Paul Avenue a little before 6:30 a.m. yesterday, a man in his 50s 39-year-old Warren Foster Jr. of San Francisco "was found suffering gunshot wounds and taken to a local hospital where he later died." No arrests were made. And in a jarring turn of events, here's a "good" story about SF's beleaguered Bayview district, something or other about a food giveaway. Enjoy. (SF Crime, CBS 5)......
Continue Reading "SFist Blotter"July 29, 2008
Holy smokes. After an early morning shooting over at the Davis-Coit Apartments in downtown Oakland, which resulted in one arrest with one suspect at-large, this was the scene from inside the apartment of SFist reader EllyMental's girlfriend. EM tells us: [T]hought you might be interested in a pic my gf took this morning from inside her job in Oakland. It appears the fuzz raided a house that was the scene a 3am shooting last......
Continue Reading "Scene From an Early Morning Oakland Manhunt"July 28, 2008
SUNDAY, POTRERO HILL: Someone was the unlucky recipient of life-threatening gunshot wounds over in the Potrero Hill district. It's happened over on the 100 block of Connecticut Street. No arrests have been made. (CBS 5, via SF Crime) SATURDAY, HAIGHT: After getting stabbed twice, an unidentified man was robbed of his skateboard and backpack over in the SF's Make-Love-Not-War district, near Haight and Stanyan streets. He was whisked away to SF General and received......
Continue Reading "SFist Blotter"July 24, 2008
Alleged member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang Edwin Ramos, 21, pleaded not guilty in the noontime shooting deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. Ramos, if you recall, was here as an illegal immigrant and also committed two felonies - an assault of a Muni passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant lady - but was not, according to the Chronicle, "surrendered by San Francisco juvenile......
Continue Reading "Edwin Ramos Pleads Not Guilty In Murder of Father, Sons"July 17, 2008
Holy second-hand smokes! An astounding five people were shot in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood last night. According to the Merc (via Bay City News), the fuzz found five people suffering from gunshot wounds over on the 800 block of Missouri Street, right next to the Potrero Hill Recreation Center. This happened at around 10:30 p.m.last night. Apparently, someone came up to the group and started shooting. Jesus. Anyway, all of the victims are expected......
Continue Reading "Five Folks Gunned Down In Potrero Hill"July 15, 2008
After a fistfight on Sunday night at around 12:50 a.m, Frederick Marcelo was shot and killed in SOMA at Fifth and Clementina. According to SF fuzz talking head Sgt. Neville Gittens, the shooting took place after a physical fight between Marcelo and three other people. One of the guys shot Marcelo with a handgun, and then the three suspects hightailed it in "a small, black car driven by a fourth suspect." Arrests? None. SF......
Continue Reading "Manhunt: Search for Four Underway After SOMA Murder"July 11, 2008
Following last night's stab/shoot, this most recent incident happened this afternoon in the Mission. According to SFist reader choadrocker, there is"a shitload of blood in front of ritmo latino. this is noonish on friday. looks like another shooting or knifing..." Yikes. Stay tuned. Update 1: Another scene-of-the-crime photo waits after the jump. Update 2: Looks like City can add yet another murder to its growing list. According to SF Sgt. Neville Gittens, the victim......
Continue Reading "Shooting at 20th Street & Mission Outside Ritmo Latino?"June 26, 2008
Member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang -- considered "one of the most dangerous street gangs in San Francisco" -- Edwin Ramos, 21, of El Sobrante was arrested for last Sunday's road-rage shooting deaths of Tony Bologna and his two sons, Michael and Matthew. The suspect allegedly shot the family to death, according to the Chronicle, because Tony "inadvertently blocked another car from completing a left turn onto Congdon from Maynard Street...after the......
Continue Reading "Arrest In Road Rage Shooting"June 25, 2008
Matthew Bologna, the 16-year-old road rage shooting victim who was alive but in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, was taken off life support last night and pronounced dead. This makes the third death in last Sunday's vehicular-anger deaths that took the lives of a father, Anthony Bologna,48, and his two sons. While no arrests have been made, a sketch of the suspected gunman has been released (at right). An resemblance of the......
Continue Reading "Third Road Rage Shooting Victim Dies, Sketch of Suspect Released"June 24, 2008
Wimbledon, that top-drawer tennis championship played on grass way over on the other side of the pond, is currently underway. What's more, it's coming under fire for "using marksmen to shoot down dive-bombing pigeons" interfering with the matches on Centre Court. Mean! Typically, Wimbledon uses scary hawks to halt (arguably) adorable pigeons from game interference. The bully birds, however, haven't done the trick this year. Wimbledon spokesman Johnny Perkins tells ESPN, "the hawks are......
Continue Reading "Wimbledon Under Fire for Pigeon Murder"June 24, 2008
Early this morning at around 1:10 a.m., an unidentified woman, 36, was shot while waiting in her car at a stop sign on the 1500 block of Shafter Avenue in Bayview. No word yet as to why. The shooting victim was rushed to SF General and is in stable condition. No arrests have been made. Of course. This shooting comes on the heels of Sunday's alleged road rage shooting in the Excelsior, which took......
Continue Reading "Woman Shot While Waiting at Stop Sign"June 23, 2008
BERNAL HEIGHTS EXCELSIOR, SUNDAY: After three people were shot in broad daylight at Maynard and Congdon streets, two of the gunshot victims died. It seems the men were driving southbound on Congdon Street at 3:10 p.m. yesterday when they encountered another car going northbound on the same street. A suspect in the second car then fired, shot three and killed two, and fled. No arrests have been made. Oh, and this brings the city's......
Continue Reading "SFist Blotter"June 11, 2008
As students were taking their final exams yesterday afternoon, a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed on Somerset Street, right across from Philip and Sala Burton High School, according to the Examiner. While the victim has yet to be identified, the murder suspect is described as "a single black suspect, age 17 or 18." Police are also looking for another nondescript suspect "driving a white vehicle." Students were then immediately put on lock down......
Continue Reading "Teen Shot to Death Outside SF High School"June 6, 2008
Just after 2 a.m. this morning, a drive-by shooting occurred outside the Eagle on Harrison at 12th Street, killing one. According to former Pansy Division member and current LJ user Patrock, the victim "was hanging out with two females on the Harrison side of the bar when two guys in a Jetta rolled up and fired 3 to 5 rounds,"...
Continue Reading "Bouncer Murdered Outside the Eagle"June 5, 2008
Three separate shootings in San Francisco last night injured two in the wee hours on the morning. First, over at Turk and Taylor, two men were shot at around 2:15 p.m. a.m. It seems that a "heavyset black man" shot two victims, one sitting inside a car and the other standing just outside. Both victims were transported to SF General with "non-life threatening gunshot wounds." No arrests have been made. The second shooting occurred......
Continue Reading "Early Morning Shootings Rile SF"June 2, 2008
MISSION, SATURDAY: While driving along the Highway 101 exit at Mission and Duboce, with her twin toddlers in tow, 31-year-old Milika Fields was shot and killed this past Saturday night. At around 7:15 p.m., the fuzz found "a silver Mazda MPV minivan riddled with bullet holes and three victims with gunshot wounds," according to SFPD Sargent Neville Gittens. (Her 12-year-old son and brother were also hit, expected to live.) The incident is believed to......
Continue Reading "SFist Blotter"May 30, 2008
Did you know that Hells Angels is incorporated? Well, we didn't. Please excuse of woeful lack of Hells Angels' knowledge. We digress. As the famously infamous bad-boy motorcycle gang Hells Angels takes it annual trek through Marin County, happening this weekend, they will have their backseat bitches on security watch. Why? Because a 20-year-old Marin County woman was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing of a San Leandro man "described as an associate of......
Continue Reading "Hells Angels Shooting Prefaces Annual Ride Through Marin County"May 22, 2008
Remember the man accused of killing two strip club patrons earlier this week in Sunnyvale? Well, last night the suspect, 29-year-old Matthew Andrew O'Reilly, was spotted by the fuzz, a chase ensued onto the westbound Interstate 380, O'Reilly crashed right into the center divide at El Camino Real, and then turned a gun on himself. CBS 5 goes on to say that "units created a perimeter around the scene and attempted to extricate the......
Continue Reading "Brass Rail Strip Club Murder Suspect Kills Himself After Car Chase"May 21, 2008
Although he was known for being a neighborhood peace maker, 34-year-old Andre Daniels took two bullets to the head and died in what SFPD are calling "an execution-style killing." ...
Continue Reading "Father of Two Killed In Bayview-Hunters Point"May 20, 2008
The man accused of shooting two Brass Rail strip club partons in Suynnyvale on Sunday is on the loose, according to CBS 5. [29-year-old] Matthew Andrew O'Reilly is suspected of shooting two people in front of the Brass Rail strip club in Sunnyvale Sunday night. He was last seen driving a silver Nissan Altima, license plate 5UFY655. If you recall, Menlo Park's Benjamin Osegura, 31, and San Mateo's Jason William Gamino, 29, were found......
Continue Reading "Alleged Sunnyvale Strip Club Shooter Still At-Large"May 14, 2008
A man was fatally shot near Top Dog hot dog dining establishment in Berkeley last night. According to the Oakland Tribune, "[t]he name of the man in his late 20s was not immediately available from police, who said he is not a UC Berkeley student." (Well, thank God. Because that would have been upsetting.) It seems that the victim and the shooter were having a heated debated just before the murder. Then after getting......
Continue Reading "Murder Near Top Dog"May 12, 2008
FRIDAY, AT&T PARK: Anthony Giraudo, 19, was killed after a Giants game just outside AT&T Park. He died after receiving one punch in the head and then hitting, falling over, and hitting his head on the ground. Taylor Buckley, 18, of San Carlos was initially arrested for aggravated assault on Giraudo. He posted bail, but soon after Giraudo died, he was later re-arrested on suspicion of murder. Via.SUNDAY, OAKLAND: During a party, some cad......
Continue Reading "SFist Blotter"May 5, 2008
Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that magic recording device that can pinpoint the locations of discharged gunfire in San Francisco's most at-risk neighborhoods--hears gunfire that city residents should be reporting. Via. Two men were shot and killed in SF on Saturday night. First, just outside the Japan center in Japantown......
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