Early Morning Shootings Rock UN Plaza, Mission

While you were likely still sleeping, two men were injured in shootings across San Francisco: One in UN Plaza, and one in the heart of the Mission District.

The first shooting occurred at 12:04 Wednesday morning when, according to the San Francisco Police Department, three men began to argue in Civic Center's UN Plaza.

An 18-year-old man and a man of unknown age both had guns, police say, and "started shooting" following a "verbal argument in the plaza."

A 23-year-old man was injured in the scrum, shot in the "lower torso," police say. He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police managed to detain the 18-year-old suspect in the incident, but the other man remains on the loose as of publication time.

At 4:17 this morning, police were called to the scene of a second shooting, this one on the 500 block of South Van Ness Avenue, which is near 16th Street.

When officers arrived, they discovered a 39-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. According to the SFPD, the man had been "sitting in his vehicle on 16th @ Shotwell" when the male suspect "walked up to the driver side of vehicle and fired approximately 6 shots," striking the victim four times.

The suspect then fled in a black SUV on "101 towards Oakland," according to the SFPD.

The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with (remarkably!) non-life-threatening injuries, police say. The suspect in the shooting remains at large.