Angel was sleeping in his second-floor apartment when he awoke at 4 a.m. Saturday to screaming outside his building on Wiese Street. Then, he heard two gunshots.
It was the city’s 15th homicide so far this year. Angel said the voices sounded like men arguing. It could have been a drug deal gone bad, he guessed.
A detective on the case and the police on the scene would not detail the victim’s gender. An officer did confirm that the victim died from a gunshot wound.
Wiese Street runs between 16th and 14th streets. The incident took place between 16th and 15th streets in front of a clapboard apartment house.
The SFPD reported Saturday night that officers responded to the call at 4:06 a.m. and found a victim suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers rendered aid and transported the victim to the hospital. But, “despite lifesaving efforts of the medical staff, the victim was declared deceased in the hospital,” according to the SFPD.
At 2 p.m. today, the street was still cordoned off with yellow tape. An officer on the scene said they were going door to door to speak to any witnesses.
This was the 15th homicide in San Francisco so far this year, a 31 percent decrease compared to the 22 committed during the same period last year, according to the SFPD’s crime dashboard.
Earlier this month, Luis Manuel Arguello-Inglis, a 19-year-old Lowell High School graduate, was killed at Dolores Park.
This is a developing story and we will update as we get more information.
The police department’s homicide unit is investigating this shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD Tip Line at 1-415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.
Oh Great, this is our back alley. So many kids live on our street. It’s very pathetic that our politicians don’t do anything to stop the filth. They have no courage, they are owned by the non profit industrial complex and idealogy that victimizes everyone who doesn’t put in the effort to be a positive member of society. Tough Love is desperately needed in our beautiful city.
Correction: Wiese Street runs between 15th & 16th Streets.
The people are the problem.
Just steps from the Mission SFPD station. Police rarely prevent nor clear crimes in meaningful numbers. Police are basically a security blanket for paranoid conservative predominantly older, whiter people, if not in skin tone and age, in ideology.
“What do you guys think of electing our Police Chief ?”
My dog, Skippy and I came across the Crime Scene around half past eight in the morning and I immediately asked the patrolman and detective at the scene my current question for cops.
They were evasive until I told them that Marty Halloran and Gary Delagnes (past presidents of the SFPOA) thought it was a good idea.
Give 471,000 voters a chance to look at campaign promises and make a choice instead of ONE person wondering how they can make the most Politically Advantageous and pliable pick.
Lotta guns out in the Mission after Midnight.
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Bad idea to elect the police chief. It’s an administrative job not a policy making job.Police policies and procedures should be constructed to align with other City policies and goals. It’s the Mayor’s principal job to coordinate administrative departments to conform with policies and ordinances that the BOS and Mayor have legislated.
In the last two years, Ronen and Emily Cohen have installed a halfway house for troubled young adults and a “tiny homes” village within two blocks of each other. They assured neighbors that these dwellings would improve neighborhood safety.
In the last two weeks alone, we have had an unsolved murder in Dolores Park, a major drug bust on Shotwell, a stabbing at Valencia Gardens, and now this murder. And those are just the crimes that have been publicly reported
It is high time that the city stopped situating its problems in the Mission, and it is time for some answers about these crimes. I appreciate the SFPD’s drug bust, and it is time that we started publishing mug shots of people arrested for violent crimes.