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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/current Eagle employee/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," hitting the guy and spraying the SOMA hot spot with gunfire. He says:
Sometime around 2:10am as we were cleaning up, I heard someone pulling on the front doors to the bar. It's not necessarily an unusual thing but I heard some voices getting loud on the other side of the wall though couldn't make out what they were saying. I ignored it and went about cleaning.It was maybe 2:17am, about five loud gun shots came from just on the other side of the south wall of the bar on Harrison Street. I instantly hit the deck under the bar and in front of the cooler. (...) Nobody realized what just had happened and thought it was a box falling over or something...thinking I was being paranoid. Almost immediately we heard multiple sirens heading toward us. The first squad car pulls up and you could see them on the security camera. They get out of the car and slowly move around to the other side of the building. After things start to look calm through the camera, I go outside to see what happened. There was a drive by shooting. A guy was murdered right out front of the bar. Apparently 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. The two females fled the scene.
A bullet went through the south wall, under the benches and lodged itself into one of the steps by the pool table. This crossed about two feet from where I was when the shots went off.
According to the Gate, the victim was Germane Harris, 33, a bouncer who had just finished his shift at Holy Cow. No arrests have been made.
Read more about it here, see more images here.
Altered image credit: Patrock
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Where the hell was SFPD?
oh wait, National Donut Day...I forgot.
I live right across from the Eagle, and heard the gunshots just after 2am. Reported this on sfist tip page last night around 2:45 as a matter of fact. I went out and spoke with the police, who actually arrived no more then a few minutes after the shots were fired. I can say without a doubt that SFPD and SFFD were on scene extremely quickly, and did all they could to save the bouncer.
My landlord has a camera installed on our building, and will be handing over footage from 1am-3am to the police in hopes that the camera caught the culprits on his DVR.
Holy Shit!
The 46th homicide of the year. Looks like the city is well on it's way for another year of a record setting homicide rate. Seems to me that I once heard a paticular Mayor said he would sign his own peyion for a recall if he could bring the homicide rate down.