Around 3:15 a.m. Sunday morning, a 23-year-old man was shot in Potrero Hill after the car he was riding in dropped off a friend near the Potrero Hill Playground. The driver attempted pull a U-turn and leave the area after hearing shots fired, but the victim in the backseat was struck by a bullet when the shooter open fire again. more ›

A 23-year-old man was shot while sitting inside a car Saturday night/early Sunday at the intersection of Missouri Street and Turner Terrace, near the Potrero Hill Playground. The incident happened just after 3 a.m. Sunday, and the victim was with friends dropping someone off when shots rang out. more ›

Tuesday evening around 8:45 p.m., SFPD officers responding to reports of a shooting near Plymouth and Farallones streets in the Oceanview neighborhood found a 47-year-old male victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. The man was found on the sidewalk about a block from the nearby Minni & Lovie Ward Rec Center and was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for life-threatening injuries. 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 ›

A man was found dead in the passenger seat of a crashed Chevy Camaro Monday afternoon, near Mills College in East Oakland. The man was killed while riding in the car near an I-580 westbound off-ramp at Calaveras Avenue and Buell Street. The driver of the car was also shot, and crashed the car into a utility pole. He was transported to the hospital and his condition is not known. more ›

A man returning home from walking his dog on the 7000 block of Elverton Drive in the Oakland hills was shot last night around 10:30 p.m. while trying to enter his home. He was approached by two suspects from behind, one of them armed, who said something to him as he was walking toward his house. He either refused to respond, or responded while trying to get through the front door, and one of the suspects shot him in the arm before fleeing the scene. The man was transported to a local hospital and treated for his wound. more ›

Oakland Police this afternoon released the booking photo of Oikos University massacre suspect One Goh. Goh stands accused of shooting 10 and killing 7 classmates yesterday at Oikos University in Oakland. Goh was described today as "remorseless" after the attack in which he "systematically and randomly" lined up and shot his fellow students. more ›

A young man was fatally shot on Western Addition streets late Monday night. SFPD officers responding to reports of gunshots a few blocks North of Alamo Square arrived to find 21-year-old victim Lawrence Richardson lying on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound around 10:40 p.m. After being transported to a nearby hospital, Richardson was pronounced dead just before midnight. more ›

A guy who (likely) thought he was walking into a friend's house at 4:20 a.m. Sunday in Foster City was shot multiple times by a guest in the home who thought he was an intruder. The 24-year-old victim is, sadly, now in intensive care, and it appears he was very intoxicated at the time of the incident. The shooter, a Brentwood man in his 40s whose name has not been released, has not been charged with any crime, but it remains unclear whether he actually believed he was in any danger when he shot the unarmed intruder, which could lead to a charge. more ›

2012's stabbing epidemic has left one man in critical condition after a 3 a.m. stabbing on Seventh Street Wednesday morning. The 40-year-old male victim claims he was minding his own business (again: at 3 a.m. on Seventh Street) when a stabby criminal knifed him without provocation. The victim managed to get help at the Carl's Jr. in UN Plaza, where he was rushed off to S.F. General to be treated for the life-threatening gash to his torso. more ›

Yesterday afternoon around 1:30 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot while getting off a 9-San Bruno bus. The shooter, a man in his early twenties, apparently boarded the Muni vehicle shortly before the incident and started arguing with the victim who had already been on the bus. When the victim stepped off the bus near Garrison Avenue in Visitacion Valley, the shooter opened fire from the back door, hitting the victim three or four times in the torso. more ›

A man was shot early Sunday in East Oakland, and then he was run over, just to make sure the job was done. The incident happened about 3 a.m. on the 1000 block of 88th Avenue, and the victim's name hasn't been released. more ›

The crime-ridden state of Oakland continues unabated after two more shootings rocked the East Bay town overnight. First, a man walking on the 1300 block of Campbell Street in West Oakland "heard a gunshot and found he was injured in the leg." He was whisked to a nearby hospital. His condition is "unknown." more ›

In the Bayview, another 19-year-old man was found shot in the back after an incident Sunday morning. The victim, who is expected to survive his gunshot wounds, told police he was standing outside on Harbor Road when he was approached by an armed man he didn't know. According to an SFPD spokesman, when the victim took off running, the shooter hit him in the back and escaped. more ›

A 49-year-old man attempting to lure police in to shooting him to death went on a rampage in his SoMa apartment building Tuesday night that ended in a brutal-looking punch-up from SFPD officers and accusations of police brutality. The man, who has not been identified, apparently assaulted multiple victims in his building near Third and Perry Streets to get the attention of responding police officers before threatening them with a gun he didn't have. more ›

In addition to the shootings on this side of the Bay last night, three separate shootings in Oakland left one 48-year-old man dead and two others wounded. The fatal incident occurred around 8:45 p.m. Thursday when the identified man was shot and killed while walking down the 800 block of 26th Street in West Oakland. It was the 11th homicide of the year thus far. more ›

A couple of attempted robbers and the owner of the taco truck they tried to stickup got in to a gun battle in a heavily-armed corner of Oakland late last night. According to the Chronicle, two men walked up to the Tacos el Mazatlan truck parked at the corner of Fruitvale Boulevard around 1:30 a.m., waving a gun and demanding cash from owner Omar Castillas. Castillas, who was cleaning up at the time, pulled out his own weapon and the two men opened fire on each other. more ›

In Berkeley's first homicide of the year, a man walking to a friend's home was shot multiple times on Shattuck Avenue near Emerson Street. The victim was on his way to watch basketball with a friend when he was gunned down in the street. Police arriving on the scene found the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and the friend's home "riddled with bullet holes." more ›

The family of Charles Hill, the "wobbly drunk" homeless man shot and killed by BART police last July has filed a civil suit against BART seeking monetary damages for the incident. According to the Examiner's report on the filing, Oakland attorney John Burris will be representing Hill's next of kin. Burris, anti-BART PD readers might remember, successfully secured nearly $3 million in damages for Oscar Grant's mother and daughter in the wrongful death case that followed the trial of BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. more ›

In Richmond, a 22-year-old college student was shot and killed by a gunman while sitting in a parked car not far from the Richmond BART station. The victim, identified as Contra Costa Community College student Edwin Martinez, was in his car on a residential street with his sister around 7 p.m. last night when the gunman came around a corner shooting at another vehicle while chasing it on foot. more ›

Gunshots rang out in three separate shooting incidents this Saturday — two in the Bayview and one during a mugging in Bernal Heights. In the first Bayview incident a 20-year-old man was shot on a T-Third Muni platform near Gilman Avenue. more ›

Chris Middleton, the California man who recently moved to Georgia only to be shot in the stomach after cheering on the Niners at a Duluth-area Applebee's on Saturday, remained in critical condition yesterday evening. But according to Middleton's doctors, his meal at the neighborhood grill with over 2,000 locations might just save his life. more ›

Around 12:50 a.m. last night a 911 caller reported six to nine shots fired at the intersection of 16th and Valencia in the Mission. Police checking out the scene found six bullet casings, but unlike countless random shootings at 16th and Mission a block over not a single person was reportedly hit by the gunfire. more ›

A 42-year-old man was shot and killed by a police officer during a routine traffic stop Saturday night around 9:45 p.m. in Santa Clara. The policeman, a 2-year veteran of the force, pulled the man over on suspicion of a DUI on the 2400 block of Karen Drive. As the Chron reports, the cop said the man became uncooperative, and the cop called for backup. Then the suspect reached for a loaded revolver, and the cop shot him in self-defense. He was pronounced dead at the scene. more ›

Is it just us or has San Jose been getting more violent lately? Today brings news of a late-night bar brawl that ended around 1:45 a.m. this morning with two men stabbed and one man shot. This all happened at the Creekside Bar & Grill in the typically quiet Willow Glen neighborhood. more ›

A five-year-old Oakland boy died at Children's Hospital late Friday night after being struck in the neck by shots fired from a car passing by his family's taco truck on International Boulevard. Gabriel Martinez Jr. was the only victim of the drive-by shots that rang out just before 9 p.m. Friday. He was transported to the hospital where he was declared dead about an hour later. more ›

An unidentified victim (we're not even clear if he/she was male or female) was shot last night around 8:40 p.m. near the intersection of Divisadero and Eddy Streets. more ›

The holiday season appears to have brought with it a new wave of violence in Oakland, with "at least" six separate shootings occurring between Saturday and Sunday, injuring five and killing one man. more ›

Saturday evening, around 4:50 p.m., SFPD officers responding to a shooting call on Carr street in the Bayview District arrived to find 19-year-old victim Treyvon Butler suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Butler was declared dead at the scene. As of Sunday evening, SFPD had yet to announce any arrests in the case. more ›

Last night around 7 p.m. a 41-year-old man, minding his own business and sitting in a bus shelter at 16th and Mission, got shot in the foot by a stray bullet. He hobbled to 17th Street where he was able to flag down a police officer, and he was taken to the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury that nonetheless, we sure, stung like a bitch. more ›