SF News Fisherman's Wharf Shop Owner, Accused of Murder, Dying of Starvation After Hunger Strike 56-year-old Hong Ri Wu, accused of a double murder last winter and whom a court-appointed psychiatrist has already deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, is in his fourth week of a hunger strike
SF News SFist Blotter: Two Women Shot on 6th Street; Man Stabs Parking Meter Sixth Street / Shooting: A 15-year-old girl and a 43-year-old woman were both shot at the intersection of 6th and Minna on Saturday around 2:15 a.m. The girl was struck in both
SF News The Safest City in California: Belvedere Sleepy, richy rich Belvedere, that little island made of gold up in Marin, next to Tiburon (where Tony Bennett has a mansion), has been noted by the FBI as the safest city in
SF News SFist Blotter: Women Robbed, Beaten at Market Street Travelodge Mission / Mid-Market: Two women, aged 26 and 23, were robbed and pistol-whipped early Thursday after one stepped out of their hotel room around 2 a.m., at the Travelodge at Market and Valencia.
SF News SFist Blotter: Woman Stabs Man, Claims He Was Intruder; 14-Year-Old Shot in South S.F.; Valencia Gardens Shooting Bayview / Stabbing: Athena Wortham, 42, stabbed and killed a man at her Bayview home whom she claimed was an intruder. This all happened around 4 a.m. Sunday. Police have now booked Wortham
SF News SFist Blotter: Man Beaten Almost to Death at Civic Center Hotel, Oakland Stabbing/Fire Victims ID'd Civic Center / Assault: A clerk at the totally shady Civic Center Hotel at 12th and Market got severely beaten last evening after refusing entry to a man in his 20s. The 59-year-old victim
SF News South S.F. Travelodge Becomes Center Of Small Teenage Prostitution Ring Fast on the heels of the news of this disturbing rape in a South S.F. home, we get word of a prostitution bust at a nearby motel involving three teenage girls, two
SF News Horrific Details Emerge About South S.F. Rape Last week we made mention in the Blotter about a kidnapping and rape of a 28-year-old woman that occurred after the woman was picked up, maybe voluntarily, for sex around 5:30 a.
SF News SFist Blotter: Sketchy Robbery In Mission Hotel, Arsenal Found In San Jose Mission / Robbery: Here's a sketchy-sounding tale: A 30-year-old man was lured Monday night up to a hotel room near 16th and Mission (!) by a 25-year-old woman, who proceeded to summon her boyfriend to
SF News Two Bodies Found In Suspicious Fire In Oakland The bodies of two as-yet-unidentified victims were found dead Saturday night/early Sunday on the 3100 block of Coolidge Avenue in Oakland, in burning second-floor apartment above an acupuncture clinic. Investigators are now
SF News SFist Blotter: Pedestrian Killed Near Duboce Park, South S.F. Rape Duboce Triangle / Vehicular Manslaughter: A 59-year-old man who lives in the Mission but frequents the Castro was hit by an SUV at the intersection of 14th and Noe on Tuesday. He later died
SF News Arrest Made In Michelle Le Murder, And It's Her Friend Giselle Esteban Yesterday morning Hayward Police finally made an arrest in the disappearance and presumed homicide of nursing student Michelle Le, who has been missing since May 27. The lone suspect is the same person
SF News SFist Blotter: Third Mission Shooting In A Week; Man Dies In Fire Mission / Murder: A shooting on Camp Street (near Guerrero and 16th Streets) marks the third Mission homicide in a week. An unidentified man in his 40s was shot several times and killed by
SF News SFist Blotter: Shootings in the Mission, Counterfeit Money on Fillmore Mission / Multiple Shootings: The Monday night shooting we mentioned yesterday outside Hog & Rocks critically wounded 22-year-old Gaspar Puch-tzek, a line cook at the restaurant. The shooter is suspected to be a Norteño
SF News SFist Blotter: One Man Shot in the Mission District; Three People Injured in Two Richmond Shootings Mission / Shooting: At around 12:30am this morning, a 22 year old man was shot in the Mission District as he was leaving his work. The attack took place near 19th St. and
SF News City Councilman in Fort Bragg Shot and Killed After Stumbling Onto Marijuana Farm Fort Bragg City Councilman Jere Melo, 69, was shot and killed Saturday morning as he and another man hiked into the woods about four miles from town, near Highway 1. They were investigating
SF News SFist Blotter: Two Men Shot in SOMA; Father Shot in Front of Son in Oakland SOMA / Shooting: Around 2:15am Sunday morning, police responded to a shooting near 5th and Mission that injured two men. The target, a man in his 40s, is thought to have been walking
SF News SFist Blotter: Home Invasion in Richmond, Botched Armored Car Heist, Saggy Pants Kerfuffle in the Sunset Richmond / Home Invasion, Murder: One woman was killed and another family member was shot and injured in a home invasion in Richmond around 4 a.m. this morning, near the San Pablo border.
SF News Drunk Woman Takes Daughter To See Smurfs Movie, Crashes Car Oh dear... a 41-year-old woman, so intoxicated that she couldn't even stand up, crashed her car in Daly City Friday night after taking her daughter to see The Smurfs. While we may sympathize
SF News SFist Blotter: Man Vandalizes City Hall, Four Shot in Oakland, Woman Raped in Oakland City Hall / Vandalism: A "very intoxicated" man, likely escaped from the nearby Tenderloin, smashed in a bunch of windows and some glass lamps at City Hall this morning. Sheriff's deputies were watching it
SF News Clumsy Burglar Tumbles Into Bathtub, Gets Arrested Today in fun crime news: A man was sleeping in the living room of his Sunset district home early yesterday morning when he heard a loud crash in his bathroom. It turned out
SF News SFist Blotter: Teen Shot in Visitacion Valley, Bling Thefts In Oakland Visitacion Valley / Murder: An 18-year-old was shot and killed by two gunmen last night at the corner of Ray and Garrison around 10 p.m. The gang task force is seeking leads. [Examiner]
SF News Community Theater Actor-Turned-Bank Robber in Half Moon Bay Sentenced to Life for Third Strike A "star" of the local theater scene in Half Moon Bay who had supposedly given up a life of crime after a previous string of bank robberies in the 80s, suddenly returned to
SF News SFist Blotter: More Shootings In Oakland Last Night; Santa Cruz Auto Shop Gets Busted for Dealing Drugs Tenderloin / Baseball Bat Assault: A 72-year-old man was attacked by a man in his 20s with a baseball bat around 1:25 a.m. this morning for no apparent reason. The attacker stole
SF News SFist Blotter: 'Let's Pretend' Edition Parkmerced / Robbery: A 21-year-old man, pretending first to be a police officer (perhaps to get his victim to stop walking), ended up chasing down and beating up a 19-year-old man in the 300
