Hayes Valley / Rape: Police are in search of a man suspected of raping a woman near Octavia and Market at around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. The alleged rapist was about 22 years old with a "light complexion," weighs about 160 pounds and almost 5 feet 10 inches tall. The suspect has a tree tattoo on his left forearm and was wearing a gray button down shirt with a blue hat at the time of the rape. The victim reportedly knew her attacker. [BCN/Appeal] more ›

Thanksgiving / Japantown: 23-year-old Medina Abdulkader was fatally shot at 8:55 p.m. on Thanksgiving night at Buchanan Street and Geary Boulevard, near the Japan Center shopping mall. Neighbors at a nearby apartment complex reported hearing several shots. more ›

8/31, CASTRO GLEN PARK: A female walking south on Castro Street (near Sussex) was accosted by a 20- to 30-year-old black man who grabbed her purse from behind, pulled her sweater over her head, and swiped her cell phone. The incident happened at around 8:30 a.m. The suspect took off north on Castro. No arrests. more ›

Early this morning, San Francisco played host to all sorts of mischief. Let's see: more ›

Richmond/Bank Robbery: Over on the 3700 block of Balboa Ave on Monday afternoon, an unidentified female walked into a bank, sauntered up to the teller, pulled out a gun and demanded money. The teller handed over some cash and the woman fled. No arrested have been made. [SFPD] more ›

At around 9 p.m. on Thursday on the 3000 block of Fulton, a 40-year-old man approached a woman sitting in her car, brandished a gun and demanded her property. The suspect, according to SFPD, managed to swipe her iPad and several other items. The victim drove off as the suspect looked for other items. No injuries were reported. No arrested have been made. more ›

Police say that, early this morning on the Unit block of Plymouth Avenue in the Lakeview neighborhood, two suspects walked up to a 16-year-old man. Suspect #1, a man between 18-22, brandished a handgun while suspect #2, a man between 18-20, swiped the victim’s money, an ATM card and a laptop. Mean! The shaken victim was uninjured. No arrests have been made. more ›

Downtown/Arson: Yesterday, over on the 400 block of Mission Street near the sleek Millennium Tower, the San Francisco Fire Department responded to two bush fires. After extinguished the tiny blazes, authorities determined that they were a result of arson. No arrests have been made. more ›

Hayes Valley/Stabbing: Near the the intersection of Fell and Laguna this morning, a 28-year-old man stabbed an 18-year-old man with a knife in front of several bystanders. After a nearby security guard witnessed the attack, police tell us he struck the suspect in the hand, causing the suspect to drop the knife and flee the scene. The victim, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, was whisked away to San Francisco General Hospital. No word yet on the motive. No arrests have been made. more ›

Haight/Assault: Egads, how gruesome. Early Sunday morning around 2:30 a.m.-ish, an assault occurred near the intersection of Waller and Webster. William Valentine, 42, was arrested for attacking someone he allegedly knew. According to BCN (via CBS 5), here's how it went down: more ›

Reported crime in SF on 6/9/2010. more ›

WEDNESDAY/FORT MASON: Just before 10:30 pm last night, two people were shot near a youth hostel in Fort Mason. CBS 5/CBN reports: "A 22-year-old woman was injured by a bullet that grazed her head ... and a 17-year-old boy was shot in the stomach." The two victims were rushed to SF General hospital. "The injured boy was undergoing surgery and his condition was not known." Witnesses say that the shooter, sporting a black hoodie and jeans, "was a male who was accompanied by as many as eight other people." more ›

TODAY/HAYWARD: Someone was shot in Hayward. (Hi, Hayward!) No arrests have been made. There's a $1,000 reward waiting for anyone with info leading to an arrest. Please call Crime Stoppers at 510-293-7197, or Hayward Police at 510-293-7034. more ›

BERKELEY-OAKLAND/SATURDAY: Three people died after a murder and car chase through the East Bay Saturday night. "It all started at 6:35 p.m. when Berkeley Police responded to reports of gunfire near Allston Way and 10th Street in West Berkeley," according to reports, where offices found an unidentified male suffering from 10 gunshot wounds. He later died. Police then chased the kmurder suspects up to North Oakland, where the they crashed their Cadillac "into two other vehicles at the corner of Aileen Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way -- killing two innocent bystanders, one in a car, and one who was walking down the sidewalk." A 26-year-old Sunnyvale man, whose Mazda got caught up in the crash, died as well. more ›

MISSION/SATURDAY: Showing no signs of slowing down, crime in the Mission will leave 2008 with a bang. Or, rather, a bloody stab. Take, of example, the incident that went down at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning in the Mission. An unidentified man was stabbed at 24th and Harrison. He was whisked away to SF General Hospital and is expected to survive. No arrests have been made. more ›

BAYVIEW: It's been relatively quiet in SF over the last week or so, but a 26-year-old was killed, and a second seriously wounded, after a shooting in the Bayview District last week. According to the Gate, SF resident Leonard Waters was shot and killed in the 1600 block of Kirkwood Avenue late Friday night. No arrests shave been made. more ›

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) more ›

The suspect, Pierre Ragland, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder, assault, carrying a loaded firearm, and carrying a concealed weapon. Oops. And the victim was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital, and it looks like he's pull through. (And to add insult to injury: "Oh my God, who shot you?" "This guy named Pierre." Ouch.) more ›

Here we see the start of a memorial at Capp and 24th Streets, right on the spot where a 19-year-old male lost his life in a double shooting last night. Are those bullet holes? Yikes. more ›

Even with all the nasty weather, this weekend proved to be yet another violent one in San Francisco. For sure. After five shootings took place within a 24-hour time period, two people lost their lives. Let's go to the rewind, folks: more ›

San Francisco started the year with a bang. Literally. more ›

Two separate shootings in the city of Richmond took the lives of three men on Thursday night. more ›