In the second case of an armed woman barricaded in an SRO in recent weeks and causing a neighborhood crisis, reports of shots fired and a woman barricaded in a room on the 200 block of Turk Street Saturday morning led to the SFPD shutting down two blocks in the Tenderloin and evacuating a floor of the building where the incident occurred.
Details are few so far, but CBS 5 reports that this all went down around 8:50 a.m. at the Salvation Army Corps Community Center, which is where the female suspect was staying. Because the woman's room had a window facing the street, two blocks of Turk Street were cleared as a precaution after she retreated back to the room when police arrived.
This was all in the vicinity of the Tenderloin Police Station as well, and Captain Theresa Ewins said that the woman had been detained, and that no one was injured despite the gunfire, which the Chronicle reports went through several walls. The incident was resolved as of about 11 a.m. when the woman surrendered.
The situation follows on another that occurred two weeks ago at an SRO in the Mission when a woman, who later admitted to being very drunk, pulled a gun on an exterminator when he knocked on her door. That incident led to a seven-hour standoff and shelter-in-place drama on Valencia Street.
#BREAKING #SFPD handling a critical incident/barricaded suspect on 200 blk of Turk St with suspect who discharged a round. Area closed off
— Ofc. Grace Gatpandan (@OfficerGrace) March 25, 2017
Advise Avoid the Area of Turk & Jones Streets due to police activity, until further notice.
— San Francisco DEM (@SF_emergency) March 25, 2017