Yikes: An unidentified man was stabbed to death in the city's South of Market neighborhood at around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The incident occurred around the intersection 8th and Howard. According to SF Appeal, this is San Francisco's 22nd homicide of 2012. "No further information about the victim, motive or any possible suspects was immediately available." more ›

Coty Luster, an 18-year-old man, was shot "multiple times" near his home in West Oakland. The incident occurred Thursday in the 1100 block of 34th Street. Luster was pronounced dead at the scene at around 8:45 p.m. Police have neither a motive nor a suspect in custody. more ›

A man was shot and killed in broad daylight yesterday in East Oakland. The victim, identified as 24-year-old Tyrell Omar Smith was pushing his 1-year-old son in a toy car around 3:15 yesterday afternoon when he was shot by an unknown assailant who fled the scene in a car. more ›

On Saturday Friday night, 39-year-old Ronald Monzon of Newman, CA was shot and killed in San Francisco's Mission District. SFPD responded to reports of gunfire near 23rd and Shotwell streets at 7:20 p.m. They found a man suffering from several bullet wounds inside a car. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. more ›

In an "insulated" neighborhood near Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills, a local man was left dead Saturday night after confronting a trespasser with a history of mental illness. The victim, 67-year-old Peter Cukor, and his wife had been returning home around 9:45 p.m. Saturday evening when they saw the suspect, 23-year-old Jordan Dewitt of Alameda, lurking around their garage. Cukor told the suspect to leave, but when Cukor came back outside the suspect attacked him, brutally beating the homeowner with a potted plant. more ›

The "Homicide in California 2010" (pdf) report showed a significant decrease in the number of murders. Numbers say that homicides declined from 1,970 in 2009 to 1,809 in 2010. Oakland Tribune reports, "Rates of homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault declined across the board over the past decade. Taken together, violent crime decreased by more than 22 percent from 2001 to 2010." However, not too shockingly, most of said murders involved firearms. more ›

Around 10 p.m. Saturday night, Police officers responding to reports of a shooting near Thomas Avenue in the Bayview found a 21-year-old victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside a liquor store on Keith Street. According to the SFPD, the victim was shot several times on the street before entering the liquor store. The victim, identified as Nick Frantin of San Francisco, was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries around 11:30 p.m. more ›

You may have heard that California's prisons are quite crowded. Well, now some folks are sounding alarm bells around last week's slaying of Carlos Nava, the three-year-old who was tragically shot in East Oakland, which perhaps could have been prevented had the two men responsible not been freed on plea deals. more ›

Indy Bay posted a link to the below YouTube video of the crowd at the scene (updated link, via SFist commenter snapshotist) immediately after yesterday's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old, allegedly armed fare-evader by SFPD officers in Bayview. This was the second such incident in less than a two weeks. (Warning: There's a pool of blood visible in the footage.) more ›

A 19-year-old allegedly armed man was fatally shot in Bayview at about 4:40 p.m. this evening after he ran from police conducting a Muni fare inspection along the T-Third line on the platform at Third and Oakdale. The officers approached the victim when he got off the train without proof of payment, and the victim fled. more ›

A little before 11:30 p.m. Monday night, police officers responded to a shooting at Webster and Hayes in San Francisco. Once the fuzz arrived, "they found a man in his 20s who had been shot in the head." He was pronounced dead at the scene. According to SF Appeal's homicide map, this marks the city's 30th murder of 2011. more ›

We're not even sure where to begin with this story of elder homicide, domestic disputes and alleged child abuse in Dublin, CA. Rosa Hill, a 36-year-old mother who lost custody of her child after splitting with her husband, has confessed to murdering his 91-year-old grandmother and stuffing her in a garbage can. more ›

We haven't been following the case of missing nursing student Michelle Le -- who disappeared May 27 from Kaiser Hospital in Hayward -- too closely, perhaps optimistic that she'd turn up. But police today have announced that, based on evidence found in the home of a "former" friend, that this is now a homicide investigation and the friend is now a person of interest in the case. We should note that the still unidentified remains found in a garbage bag in Sunnyvale over the weekend are not those of Le, and police have announced that they belonged to a Hispanic female, according to KTVU. more ›

Interim Police Chief Jeff Godown announced yesterday that the case involving the shooting of Mechthild Schröer, the German elementary school headmaster who was killed by a stray bullet as the result of a gang-related dispute in Union Square last August, was resubmitted to the District Attorney last month with more evidence. The D.A. is still deciding whether there's enough evidence to file charges against the two to five suspects who were involved. A suspect who had initially been arrested last year had later been released due to lack of a murder weapon. more ›

Beatrice Burton, a 33-year-old mother of two, was involved in a fatal drive-by shooting in West Oakland last night near Poplar Park at 30th and Union streets at 9:45 p.m. Burton, who was from Richmond and worked for the Berkeley school district as a kitchen employee, was rushed to Alta Bates Summit Medical Center by her boyfriend, where she died at about 10:30 p.m. more ›

Two men from the city of Richmond were shot on Sunday night during a dispute in a SoMa parking lot. One of the victims succumbed to his injures. The incident happened on Jessie Street between Fifth and Sixth streets around 2 a.m. more ›

Cort Holbrook, 41, who The Chronicle notes works as an engineer, was arrested yesterday afternoon under suspicion of murder for allegedly stabbing another driver during a traffic-related dispute in Livermore. The victim drove himself to the nearby Valley Memorial Hospital, which unfortunately does not have a trauma center. Staff contacted police, and the man was sent by ambulance to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley. more ›

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 ›

In the month of January this year, homicides more than doubled in major Bay Area cities. San Francisco had 11 (compared to just 5 in 2010), Oakland also played host to 11 (a drastic increase from 4), and San Jose saw 7 homicides (a major jump from 1) during the first part of 2011. Police say many of the murders were gang-related. more ›

UPDATE: Fifty-six-year-old Hong Ri Wu of San Francisco, was arrested at the scene and booked on suspicion of two counts of murder. Wu is suspected of shooting the victims, who were identified as Qiong Han Chu, 30, and Feng Ping Ou, 30, both of San Francisco, because they were selling counterfeit purses identical to his. more ›

The Contra Costa Times has published disheartening details that have emerged in the lawsuit against the city of San Francisco regarding the torture of Jazzmin Davis and her twin brother at the hands of their aunt and lifelong foster parent, Shemeeka Davis, resulting in Jazzmin's death in 2008. more ›

An arrest has been made in connection with the murder that took place at Jebana Cafe at Polk and Geary in broad daylight last Thursday. Police arrested Jodie Daniels, 29, of El Cerrito on Friday afternoon at a private residence in San Francisco. Daniels, who allegedly chased 29-year-old Terry Turner of San Francisco into the cafe, cornered him, and shot him several times in the head and chest at point-blank range, was booked on charges of homicide, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and parole violation. [Via The Chronicle] more ›

The Examiner reports that there was an apparent skateboard bashing that happened last month, which the victim died from a few days later. The attack occurred early Christmas morning at 12:45 a.m. at Haight and Masonic Avenue, in which Dustin Tolboe, 28, allegedly bashed Donald Tanksley, 60, on the head with a skateboard, causing a severe skull-fracture. more ›

San Francisco's first homicide of 2011 occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Tenderloin at Turk and Taylor Streets. The victim has been identified as Larry Lacy, aged 20, who was sitting with a man on the sidewalk at around 3:20 p.m. when the man shot him several times at close range and ran. Lacy was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and later died. Police are still investigating the shooting and are asking for witnesses to come forward. Anyone with information call (415) 575-4444 or text an anonymous tip to tip411. [Via BCN/SFA] more ›

Deliriously wealthy Hillsborough, located 17 miles south of San Francisco on the Peninsula, played host to its first reported murder since 2004. Bradley Kleiman, 30, allegedly shot and killed his friend in self-defense after the victim pulled a gun on him. SF Chronicle reports that the unidentified victims was "shot in the head in a pool house at Kleiman's home on the 100 block of De Sabla Road." Kleiman is being held at San Mateo County Jail. TV movie of the week TBD. Read more about it. more ›

That's what the SFPD wants to know, who killed Pearla Louis and stuffed her inside a suitcase and tossed her into the SF Bay? On Tuesday, if you recall, Louis' body was found on the waterfront near Folsom and Embarcadero. She was 52. more ›

SF Appeal reports that police released the identity of the woman found inside a suitcase floating on the waterfront near the Embarcadero. "The victim is a 52-year-old African-American woman named Pearla Louis," notes the Appeal. "A missing person's report was filed on Louis, a San Francisco resident, on Monday." Her body was discovered on Tuesday. more ›

Two bodies were discovered at the Bay Cities Auto Auction at 29901 Industrial Parkway Southwest in Hayward this morning. CBS 5/BCN reports: "One body was found on the pavement outside the front gate, another inside a car on the premises, according to police." No arrests have been made. more ›

With a comparatively scant 45 homicides, and "a decline in lethal shootings, stabbings and bludgeonings of more than 50 percent from both 2007 and 2008," San Francisco will see a shockingly low homicide rate this year, provided there isn't some sort of gory public massacre between now and tomorrow night.. (San Francisco played host to 97 and 98 murders, respectively, in those years.) more ›

Police arrested two suspects a few hours after three men were shot at Papa Potrero's Pizza at 24th Street and Potrero Ave around 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Two of the men died from their wounds, and the third victim is reported as not having life-threatening injuries. more ›