Tuesday was a particularly violent night in San Francisco, in what has become a relatively violent start to 2026, particularly compared to the year prior.

There were two unrelated homicides in different parts of the city Tuesday night, occurring just minutes apart. In the first, a person was fatally shot on the 1800 block of Sunnydale Avenue in the city’s Ingleside District, with police responding to the scene at 10:43 pm.

According to an SFPD release, police found a male victim suffering from gunshot wounds and attempted to render aid. The victim was then transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries, and was later pronounced dead.

No further information was provided about the victim or the circumstances of the shooting.

Minutes later, or just about simultaneously, police responded to a home on the 2200 block of 22nd Avenue, in the Sunset District, on a report of a shooting. The home is located near Santiago Street, and across the street from Lincoln High School.

Arriving officers reportedly found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound. She was transported to the hospital and was later pronounced deceased.

KRON4 reported from the scene, saying that a male suspect was taken into custody. Neighbors on the quiet street were reportedly looking on as police secured the area, and a pool of blood was apparently seen on the sidewalk.

Both of these remain active cases, and anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

These appear to have been the 11th and 12 homicides of the year to date in San Francisco. As we noted following the 10th homicide, the city has been seeing a bizarre uptick in killings since the start of the new year, and has been strangely tracking for one homicide per week — which is about double the rate the city saw last year.

In 2025, San Francisco recorded the lowest number of total homicides since 1954, a total of 28, which was a 20% drop from the already low number recorded in 2024, which was 35.

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Some more information has emerged about the Sunday home-invasion robbery in Ingleside that resulted in a homicide, and the suspect has now been charged with murder.

On Tuesday, 45-year-old Cassidy Wyatt Allen was charged with murder following the Sunday afternoon killing of a woman inside a home on Granada Avenue in SF's Ingleside District. Allen was arrested not far from the scene, and 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, after police officers were called to perform a welfare check on an individual reportedly sprawled on the sidewalk, and recognized him from a suspect description.

We now learn that the victim was a woman, 38-year-old Jessica Alejandra Sanchez Landaverde. As KRON4 reports, arriving officers found the victim on the floor in a bedroom of the home, "lying on her back at the foot of the bed with her head pointed toward the door."

Details about the victim's injuries have not yet been publicly disclosed by police, but the New York Post reports that she was severely beaten.

We also now know that a tenant in the home had called 911 when she arrived and heard something suspicious happening inside. Per KRON4, the tenant said when approached the door she heard someone inside run up and lock it, and she returned to her vehicle to call police.

It's unclear when or how the suspect fled the scene, but police say they observed a window near the front door that was ajar, with blinds that appeared to have been disturbed.

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged Allen with murder, with a special circumstance allegation that the murder was committed during a first-degree burglary, as well as one count of first-degree residential burglary.

The New York Post reports that Allen has an extensive rap sheet with arrests in multiple California counties for second-degree robbery, battery, assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting injury on an elder or dependent adult, possession of burglary tools, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was reportedly enrolled in a diversion program following one of these cases.

Allen was due to be arraigned at 1:30 pm Wednesday, and prosecutors are requesting that he be held without bail pending trial.

San Francisco police have made an arrest in a shocking burglary that turned deadly on Sunday afternoon.

As reported earlier, police arrived at a home on the 200 block of Granada Avenue in the Ingleside District around 3 pm Sunday after a report of a burglary. At the scene they found an adult victim who has yet to be identified who was suffering from undisclosed injuries.

Arriving paramedics performed CPR and took other life-saving measures, but the victim was prnounced dead at the scene.

It's unclear whether the victim or a separate witness initially reported the burglary, but police apparently had a suspect description. And sometime between Sunday evening and Monday afternoon, police from Taraval Station responded to a call for a  well-being check in the area of 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard.

A man, whose condition was not described by police, was found there and appeared to match a description of the suspect linked to the Granada Avenue burglary and homicide.

The suspect, identified as 45-year-old Cassidy Wyatt Allen of San Francisco, was detained without incident, according to the SFPD, and detectives developed probable cause to place Allen under arrest. He was booked into county jail Monday on suspicion of murder.

No further details about the crime or the deceased victim have yet been released.

This appears to be San Francisco's 25th homicide of the year to date.

While an arrest has been made, this is still an active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

Previously: Person Dies Following Home Burglary in SF’s Ingleside, Police Are Calling It a Homicide

When the SFPD responded to reports of a home burglary in SF’s Ingleside neighborhood Sunday, they found an adult victim suffering from undisclosed injuries. The person later died, and police are now investigating the case as a homicide.

As Bay City News reports, officers from the San Francisco Police Department arrived at a residence on the 200 block of Granada Avenue, south of Ocean Avenue, per KPIX, around 3 pm Sunday when they discovered the victim was injured. Officers and paramedics began performing CPR and other life-saving efforts.

The victim, who was not the suspect, was then pronounced dead at the scene, per NBC Bay Area. No arrests have been made, and the case is being investigated as a homicide, per KRON4.

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A still-unidentified woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash at Ocean and Ashton avenues early Sunday night, though police quickly found their suspect, who remains in SFPD custody.

KRON4 has the news that a pedestrian was killed in a Sunday night hit-and-run at about 6:40 pm in the Ingleside neighborhood, on the 1800 block of Ocean Avenue, near Ashton Avenue. The victim died at the scene, though SF Police found and detained a suspect within a few hours of the crash.

We still do not know the identity of the victim, though the Chronicle describes her as “an older woman” who suffered “a severe head injury” that was ultimately fatal. She was declared dead at the scene.

Though KTVU reports that the SFPD identified and detained a suspect within hours of the crash, and less than a mile away from the scene.  

“Through the course of the investigation, officers located the vehicle and a possible suspect near the 500 block of Shield Street,” the SFPD said in a release. “Officers detained the suspect for further investigation.”

While a suspect is in custody, this remains an active investigation. Anyone with information  is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

Related: Bernal Heights Residents Demand Changes After Late-Night Hit-and-Run That Killed 30-Year-Old Man [SFist]

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• SF’s first traffic report since the Upper Great Highway became Sunset Dunes Park shows congestion has shifted rather than spiked. Chain of Lakes Drive now sees 21% more cars, while traffic dropped along other routes. [Chronicle]
• After weeks of backlash and lawsuits, the Trump administration will release over $6 billion in previously frozen education grants — vital funds that support English learners, adult literacy, and after-school programs following pressure from GOP lawmakers and school leaders across the country. [Associated Press]
• San Jose and PG&E have reached a landmark deal to fast-track power for 10 data center and industrial projects, ending the city’s push for its own utility and aiming to spur growth while addressing environmental and transparency concerns. [KQED]
• A man suffered life-threatening injuries in a Saturday afternoon stabbing near Ocean Avenue and Lee Street in SF's Ingleside District; police arrested a suspect nearby and are investigating what led to the attack. [KGO]
• Sears’ Concord store will soon be the last one open in California, following the closure of the Burbank location — and one of just six remaining in the entire U.S. [KGO]

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A tragic Monday morning car crash took the lives of two women while injuring three other people in the Ingleside District, and SFPD is charging a 21-year-old Santa Rosa man with driving under the influence.

Two women are dead, and three people were injured, in what NBC Bay Area reports is a suspected DUI crash that happened early Monday morning in SF’s Ingleside District. The two-vehicle crash occurred at 1:20 am Monday morning at the intersection of Grafton and Jules avenues

Police are accusing the driver of one of the vehicles of operating under the influence. They’ve charged that driver, 21-year-old Jayden Elliott Patrick of Santa Rosa, with a slew of charges, including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury.

The victims’ names and ages have not been released. But two women who were in one car were declared dead at the scene. Four adults were in the other car, and three were hospitalized; one with life-threatening injuries, the other two with non-life-threatening injuries.

It’s unclear whether the accused DUI driver Patrick was among those injured. SF County Jail records show Patrick was booked at 7:24 am Monday morning, and currently remains in custody without bail.

While an arrest has been made, this is still an active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

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Heads up, those who ride Muni’s K, L, M, and S lines — the West Portal and Forest Hill stations, and all of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, will be closed for eight whole days, effective Thursday morning.

The Muni light-rail’s Twin Peaks Tunnel connecting the Castro, West Portal, and Forest Hill stations is more than 100 years old, and it needs a little maintenance from time to time. The tunnel was shut down for repairs the weekend of June 22-23 (the weekend before this year’s SF Pride), and a month later was closed for the weekend of July 20-21. But the tunnel’s biggest closure now looms starting Thursday morning, as NBC Bay Area reports the SFMTA will close the Twin Peaks Tunnel for eight days, for the entirety of Thursday, August 22 through Thursday, August 29.

The West Portal and Forest Hill stations will be closed for the entire eight days. Westbound light-rail trains will stop at Church Street station, and there will be bus service for the K-Ingleside, L-Taraval, and M-Ocean View lines onward from there.

“The Twin Peaks Tunnel has over a century of service under its belt and needs work to keep up with the demands of time and the Muni system,” SFMTA says in a release. “The SFMTA conducts regular inspections and structural evaluations of the tunnel, and expects to make additional improvements to the tunnel over the next 5-10 years to keep it safe and reliable for years to come. We are doing everything we can to keep the shutdown durations short and will work closely with riders, merchants, and residents to minimize any disruptions.”

The above diagram breaks down where you would have to catch a bus if you’re a K, L, or M rider. The L-Taraval will be bus-only between the Church Street station and the SF Zoo, which is already a familiar arrangement for those riders. The K-Ingleside and M-Ocean View will be bus-only from Church Street to the Balboa Park station, though following their normal respective routes.    

The S-Shuttle will have curtailed service, running only between the Embarcadero and Castro Street stations for the eight-day span. The J-Church, N-Judah, and T-Third lines will not be affected.

The Twin Peaks Tunnel is scheduled to reopen, with all trains running normally, in the early morning of Friday, August 30, as we barrel into Labor Day Weekend.

Related: Twin Peaks Tunnel Closes This Weekend for Repairs, Muni Trains Stopping at Castro [SFist]

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Someone is now in police custody in connection with the case of a shooting that left three people injured outside Stratos nightclub at the edge of the Balboa Park and Mission Terrace neighborhoods in early June.

The shooting, which happened the same weekend as a mass shooting in the nearby Mission District that injured nine people, occurred on June 10 at the nightclub on the 300 block of Ocean Avenue. Just before midnight, officers responded to a report of gunshots and found three victims wounded at the scene.

The club had been hosting its weekly Sábado de Rumba event that Saturday night.

All three ended up surviving, and the SFPD's Night Investigations Unit took up the case. On Tuesday, the department announced that they had made an arrest in the case.

The suspect is identified as 42-year-old San Francisco resident Salvador Rodriguez. Rodriguez was taken into custody last week, on July 27, on the 400 block of County Center Drive in Redwood City — that's the address of the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department, so it sounds like Rodriguez may have already been in custody for something else?

Rodriguez was then transported to San Francisco County Jail where he is facing one count of attempted murder and two counts of assault with a firearm.

The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information to share is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.  

An arrest was also made in the June 9 shooting in the Mission District. Alleged gang member and aspiring rapper Javier Campos, 22, was arrested days after the shooing in Santa Cruz County.

Meanwhile, Stratos nightclub is facing a possible suspension of its entertainment permit at an upcoming meeting of the SF Entertainment Commission.

Related: Three Injured In Shooting Outside Balboa Park Nightclub

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Two separate blazes occurred in San Francisco late Friday night and early Saturday morning, one in a warehouse and one in a residence. The house fire sadly claimed the life of one resident.

Around 7:00 a.m. Saturday morning, a fire broke out on Byxbee Street in San Francisco's Ingleside neighborhood, the San Francisco Fire Department said on Twitter.

Firefighters responding to the scene found one adult occupant inside suffering from serious injuries, spokesperson Capt. Jonathan Baxter said, as the Chronicle reported. The victim was rescued and treated by emergency responders, but succumbed to their injuries shortly afterwards.

The fire was contained within 30 minutes, according to the department. The San Francisco Fire Investigation Task Force is reportedly still investigating the incident, Baxter said.

Another fire in a warehouse in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood took place Friday night, as KNTV reported. The blaze reportedly began as a vegetation fire in a nearby homeless encampment and then spread to the City Lights SF Showroom on the 700 block of Bayshore Boulevard around 10:30 p.m.

A crew of 70 firefighters were trying to keep the flames away from a nearby (very flammable) paint store, according to KNTV. The fire was contained in about an hour-and-a-half, according to Capt. Baxter.

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While all eight victims have thus far survived, it’s concerning that San Francisco saw five separate and seemingly unrelated shooting incidents between 8 p.m. Monday night and 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.

We reported Tuesday morning that dozens of shots were fired at the 1100 block of Bryant Street just before 9:30 Monday night, with a tipster telling SFist that "40+ bullets" were fired, and SFPD confirming that two victims were shot. SFPD Public Information Officer Robert Rueca told KRON4 that “One victim suffered life threatening injuries and the other victim suffered non-life threatening injuries,” and the SF Standard had the additional update Tuesday afternoon that one victim was a 41-year-old from SF with non-life-threatening wounds, and a second victim life-threatening injuries is a 30-year-old from Oakland.

But regrettably, that was just one of several apparently unrelated shooting incidents that took place between 8 p.m. Monday night and just after 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. KRON4 now reports on two separate shootings in the Ingleside neighborhood, the first at Grafton Avenue and Jules Avenue, the second at Holloway Avenue and Harold Avenue.

“Police responded to the first shooting at about 8:13 p.m. The victim, a 45-year-old man from San Francisco, had non-life-threatening injuries. SFPD arrested Larry Victoria, 58, of San Francisco and recovered the gun,” according to KRON4. “The second shooting happened just before 2:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. SFPD said the victims were sitting in a parked car when multiple suspects opened fire on them. Two victims, a 29-year-old and a 36-year-old, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.”

The SFPD Investigations Bureau tweeted about a fourth shooting at roughly 1:45 a.m. Tuesday morning at Hyde and Fulton Streets — i.e. UN Plaza. Police say they found two victims, both with life-threatening injuries, one of whom was shot and stabbed, and the other of whom was stabbed. Police say they were multiple suspects.

The SFPD also reported on a fifth shooting at 2:12 a.m. Tuesday morning in the Mission, at 19th and Guerrero Streets. In that incident, multiple suspects in an SUV exited a vehicle and accosted multiple victims in a vehicle behind them, robbing them and shooting one of them before fleeing the scene. The victim who was shot was left with life-threatening injuries.

Anyone with information about any of these shootings is asked to call the SFPD's tip line at 415-575-4444 or to send a tip by text message to TIP411 with "SFPD" at the start of the message.

Related: Dozens of Shots Fired Into SoMa Building, Two Men Injured [SFist]

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What looks to be a brazen stolen goods fencing operation, with items that sure appear straight lifted from shelves of Walgreens and CVS, was allegedly netting one San Francisco man $500,000 a year as he just resold the stolen loot online.

The San Francisco discourse on stuff stolen from Walgreens and CVS retailers correctly assumes that the items are being resold, but we may be wrong to assume that they’re being resold on street corners like 24th and Mission. The real money may be in reselling the stuff over online platforms like Amazon, eBay, and Facebook Marketplace, where sellers can enjoy total anonymity, and the customer base is happy to pay a much higher price than a Mission Street haggler would.  

That appears to be the case, as the SFPD sees it at least, with the latest arrest that yielded an estimated $200,000 worth of stolen items from a home on Milton Street. Police arrested 38-year-old Sergio Manuel Puga-Tenorio, and suspect he’s been running an “organized retail theft fencing operation” with loads of these stolen items for years.

Taking a look at the items SFPD recovered; brand new cordless vacuum cleaners, and cartons’ worth of Mucinex, Metamucil, and probiotic colon health capsules (!) — these latter items seem very obviously ripped off from Walgreens and CVS-type stores, or big-box stores like Target. The police department press release describes the items as “stolen over-the-counter medication and personal care products.” Moreover, “The sale of the locally stolen items was done on an online platform and shipped to individuals throughout the country.”

And the SFPD alleges Puga-Tenorio has been at this for a while “Investigators estimate that Mr. Tenorio’s fencing operation was yielding over half a million dollars annually for at least the last three years. Investigators also believe that Mr. Puga-Tenorio is not unique and that there are several other individuals in the city conducting similar fencing operations.”

Though oddly, despite this enormous haul that makes all the stolen goods at 24th and Mission look like peanuts, SFPD says Puga-Tenorio was only charged so far with “one count of possession of stolen property.”

This is still a useful peek into the world of reselling stolen retail goods, and how online marketplaces may be a much bigger problem than nickel-and-dime street vendors. The SF Board of Supervisors approved a resolution in December urging Congress to pass the INFORM Act, which would require online marketplaces to “to collect, verify, and disclose certain information from high-volume, third-party sellers.” But that legislation has been stuck in the U.S. Senate for more than a year.

Note: An earlier of this version of this post incorrectly identified Milton Street as being in the Ingleside neighborhood, as it is described a such in the SFPD press release. Milton Street is in the Glen Park neighborhood.

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It’s not exactly "hostile architecture" if it’s just a four-by-eight-foot slab of plywood, but the Ingleside Path wall has rustled up a similar controversy to the now infamous anti-homeless boulders of Clinton Park.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock installed last month by wealthy neighbors, you’re surely aware of the anti-homeless boulders that have come and gone from a little Mission District street called Clinton Park. The class-warfare debate on neighbors’ struggles with unsheltered populations has also been ignited in Ingleside, as the Examiner reported last weekend that a roughly four-foot-wide pedestrian walkway right off Ocean Avenue was walled off and shuttered as neighbors complained of “needles in our front yard” and frequent “screaming, swearing, fighting” in the walkway. The slapdash wall has since been removed, but the debate continues among Ingleside residents on whether to barricade the tiny Ingleside Path.

An ABC 7 reporter’s tweets above provide a little timeline, and the wooden wall was apparently torn down Monday. This is not a tiny, backwoods neighborhood — the M Oceanview rolls right by this spot, and it’s a busy area of Ocean Avenue towered over by the recognizable creamsicle-colored El Rey Theater. The contained sidewalk itself is rather small and discreet, though, and according to KRON 4 it’s been a public walkway for more than 100 years.

More significantly, KRON 4 reports that “the head of the Department of Public Works signed at the director’s order allowing the lane to be sealed off at both ends by a temporarily locked gate.” In other words, a lockable gate is probably coming, but who knows which way public sentiment will turn.

SFist’s visit to the site this morning showed that yeah, people probably are crashing on the sidewalk. We didn’t see needles, but it’s certainly a place where you could leave your stuff and and have a reasonable expectation that it would still be there when you got back. But not everyone is on board with boarding up the sidewalk.

“I did not agree with the blockade at all. That was a very nuclear decision,” vice-chair of the Ocean Avenue Association Miles Escobedo told KGO. “Why board it up? That's a circumstance of fear. Which is almost worse. We should not be scared. We should be able to contact our local authorities.”

The back of the walkway facing Ingleside Terrace is now clear too, though KPIX reports that it was also barricaded “for a few days” and “with the blessings of the DPW.” KGO also added that neighbors met at Ingleside Library to discuss the situation last night, so it remains on open question if, when, and how the alley will be closed.

We tend to blame all of these urban problems on the homeless population, but that’s not entirely true. As the Examiner noted in their report, “Uber drivers consistently tried to drive into the too-small walkway and found themselves stuck.”

Related: Anti-Homeless Boulders Removed From Street By City, Might Be Replaced With Bigger Ones [SFist]