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<p>A 65-year-old woman was shot and killed on an oft-violent San Francisco street corner Wednesday, the victim of a triple shooting that left two other men injured.</p>

<p>The slaying occurred at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, the San Francisco Police Department says, at the corner of Plymouth Avenue and Broad Street.</p>

<p>It's a corner familiar to those who follow crime in the city, plagued by violence and death for years. There was <a href="http://sfist.com/2015/10/12/sfs_40th_homicide_for_2015_sunday_m.php">a fatal shooting during a 2015 robbery</a>, for example, a <a href="http://sfist.com/2016/10/08/one_dead_another_injured_in_san_fra.php">double shooting that killed one and injured another in October of 2016</a>, and another fatal shooting this January that <a href="http://sfist.com/2017/01/23/brazen_afternoon_shooting_in_san_fr_1.php">claimed the life of 18-year-old Josiah Lightfoot</a>.</p>

<p>In Wednesday's incident, which an SFPD spokesperson confirms is the city's 15th homicide for 2017, police say that gunfire from a handgun struck a 40-year-old man, a 51-year-old man, and a 65-year-old woman. All three were transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where the female victim, who was identified by the San Francisco Medical's Examiner as SF resident Lian Xiu Wu, was pronounced dead on arrival. The male victims' injuries were not life-threatening, police say.</p>

<p><a href="http://abc7news.com/news/woman-killed-in-san-francisco-shooting/1824406/">ABC 7 reports</a> that at the time of the shooting, Wu was walking on the street, near the other two victims: A contractor who worked for Muni, and <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Police-Investigate-Shooting-in-Oceanview-Neighborhood-417486073.html">a 50-year-old computer repairman </a>who was walking home from the store.</p>

<p>Based on shell casings collected at the scene, at least 11 rounds were fired at the victims, according to ABC 7.  <a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/daytime-homicide-marks-latest-violence-oceanview-neighborhood/">The Ex reports that </a> witnesses "saw or heard a car drive by before hearing multiple shots and saw bloodied bodies on the ground."</p>

<p>San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Police-Investigate-Shooting-in-Oceanview-Neighborhood-417486073.html">tells NBC Bay Area</a> that he believes that the shooting is the latest salvo in an area turf battle, but emphasized to the Ex that “All we know is that one innocent bystander was killed and two innocent bystanders were shot."</p>

<p><a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Woman-killed-two-men-wounded-in-midmorning-SF-11037182.php?t=dedb019922&amp;cmpid=twitter-premium">According to the Chron</a>, Wu was "a well-known figure in the neighborhood" and "lived just steps from where she was shot."</p>

<p>“The lady, she was just going home,” Gwen Brown, executive director of a nearby nonprofit group called Inner City Youth told the Chron.</p>

<p>“She lived right there. Her sister came out and she didn’t know what was happening, and then she walked up and saw it was her sister and started screaming.”</p>

<p>According to <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/amnur7-funeral-expense">a Go Fund Me page</a> set up to help with funeral arrangements for Wu, she "emigrated from China 16 years ago without her daughter" and "worked very hard to bring her daughter to America and it took 14 years before she was finally successful 2 years ago."</p>

<p>“I feel violated,” Brown told the Chron “Ten-forty in the morning? What were you trying to prove? And that poor lady. She was one house away from her front door. She literally died looking at her apartment building.”</p>

<p>Addressing the media, Taraval Station Captain Denise Flaherty said that they were conscious of the issues on that corner, and that it "continues to be a concern for us as a Police Department and, more importantly, the community."</p>

<p>“We are doing all we can to work in partnership with the community...to act as guardians for this community and not just to be here as a sign of enforcement.”</p>

<p>Safai tells the Ex that new SFPD Chief Bill Scott "recently visited the neighborhood" and "has given his assurance that foot patrols will be assigned to the area and security cameras will be installed." That uptick in security can't come too soon for residents like Adam Charles, who told ABC 7 that "It's frustrating not being able to go to my house...there are dead bodies on the street, people being shot."</p>

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SFPD is investigating another incident of brutality the a weekend incident was caught on film. While arresting a "drunk and belligerent" baby stroller-pushing woman at the Taraval station on Sunday, an officer appears to push the woman face first into the pavement on the street between two parked cars. According to <a href="http://cbs5.com/crime/SFPD.arrest.video.2.1817136.html">CBS 5</a>, "as the officers tried to put her in a patrol car  she pushed back yelling, 'it's my baby in the street!,'" prompting the mild scuffle. </p>

<p>Things get heated around the 1:08 mark.</p>

<p><strong>Previously:</strong> <a href="http://sfist.com/2010/07/01/police_ruckus_at_sf_gay_pride.php">Police Ruckus Raised at S.F. Gay Pride</a><br>
</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[SFist Blotter]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 hand...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2010/07/02/sfist_blotter_107/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2423da44ad066cdcf28dc4</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[blotter]]></category><category><![CDATA[crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[taraval]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:00:02 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2010/07/guntaraval-thumb-640xauto-524429.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2010/07/guntaraval-thumb-640xauto-524429.jpg" alt="SFist Blotter"><p></p>

<p>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.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creepy Man Approaching Middle School Girls In SF]]></title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://sfappeal.com/alley/2009/09/suspicious-man-approaching-sf-middle-school-girls.php">Described by</a> <a href="http://cbs5.com/local/man.approaching.girls.2.1202749.html">the media</a> as...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2009/09/23/creepy_man_approaching_middle_schoo/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24269c44ad066cdcf3fbc9</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[ingleside]]></category><category><![CDATA[taraval]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:05:51 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>

<p><a href="http://sfappeal.com/alley/2009/09/suspicious-man-approaching-sf-middle-school-girls.php">Described by</a> <a href="http://cbs5.com/local/man.approaching.girls.2.1202749.html">the media</a> as "a Filipino man in his early to mid-30s, with dark complexion and acne" and quite very possibly wearing "a white shirt," a man has been approaching middle school girls in the Ingleside and Taraval neighborhoods "at least twice in recent weeks." The incidents, which occurred as the girls were leaving school, are reported to have happened on Sept 9 and 14. According to Ingleside police Capt. David Lazar, "He asks girls to get in his car, he tries to befriend them, he tries to get their name," If you see or are approached by this man, call the fuzz.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrests Made/Info Needed on Richmond and Taraval District Gangs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seven youths and one 18-year-old, Duc Truong, were arrested yesterday in connection with several assaults on other juveniles in the San Francisco's Richmond and Taraval hoods over the last few weeks. ...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/09/12/arrests_madeinfo_needed_on_richmond/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2423dc44ad066cdcf28e46</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[assault]]></category><category><![CDATA[crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[gangs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sunset]]></category><category><![CDATA[taraval]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:35:39 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seven youths and one 18-year-old, Duc Truong, were arrested yesterday in connection with several assaults on other juveniles in the San Francisco's Richmond and Taraval hoods over the last few weeks. All of them are thought to be a part of some sort of "Chinese gang" gaily called the "True Brothers" gang. It seems "five attacks took place over the past two months and involved the suspects attacking the victims with baseball bats and knives." Do you know anything about this very real order of fraternity? Then please call SFPD's anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 now. Also, this brings up a critical question, who would win in a fight: True Brothers or <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/09/10/what_not_to_wear_red_and_blue_color.php">Sureños</a>? Our money is on the latter. (<a href="http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&amp;item=SF-GANG-ARRESTS-bagm-">CBS 5</a>)</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>