SF News 94-Year-Old Asian Woman Stabbed In the Tenderloin, Suspect Has Long Rap Sheet, Was Out on Bail A 94-year-old Asian woman was reportedly stabbed Wednesday morning in San Francisco in what's been described as an unprovoked attack.
SF News 60-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot Near Civic Center Alley A man was shot and killed Monday night near one end of an alley near Civic Center, one of several alleys that have been the sites of violent crime in recent months.
SF News South Bay Tech Businessman and His Wife Accused of Trafficking 100+ Women, Operating Six Brothels A Milpitas tech businessman and wife stand accused of pimping, pandering, money laundering, and human trafficking following a two-year investigation into their alleged brothel business.
SF News Asian Public Defender Gets Heat From Family Over Defending Mentally Ill Man Who Assaulted Elderly Woman The Taiwan-born SF public defender assigned to the case of Steven Jenkins — the 39-year-old homeless man accused in the March 17 assault on 75-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie — says he's taken some heat from some family members.
SF News Shooting at Market and McAllister Gravely Injures One Man; SFPD Says to Avoid the Area An investigation is ongoing into a Thursday morning shooting near the intersection of Market and McAllister streets in San Francisco, and police are advising the public to avoid the area.
SF News High-End Handbag Heisters Hit Stanford Shopping Center Yet Again A gang of grab-and-run thieves descended on the Louis Vuitton store at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto this week and stole an estimated $100,000+ in pricey handbags.
SF News Well Known Corner Store Owner In Lower Pac Heights Loses Eye In Stabbing The longtime owner of a corner store on Franklin Street in San Francisco was brutally stabbed multiple times last week in an incident of random violence that followed his storefront being smashed by a car.
SF News Possible Link Investigated Between Oakland Double Murder and Party Bus Shooting Investigators in Oakland believe there may be a link between a May 16 double homicide in East Oakland that killed two 17-year-old boys, and the shooting up of a party bus that happened about one day later on I-580, killing two more teenagers.
SF News Plea Delayed For Suspect In San Jose Hate-Crime Assault As Competency Is Assessed A man accused in an alleged physical and sexual assault at a San Jose train station in March that came with anti-Asian epithets remains in jail without bail, but he has not yet entered a plea in the case.
SF News Arrest Made In Fatal Hit-and-Run on Polk Street The SFPD has made an arrest in Tuesday's hit-and-run collision at Polk and Hyde that took the life of a 29-year-old woman, and the suspect is the registered owner of the vehicle whose driver fled the scene.
SF Politics DA Boudin Pushes Back on Police About Evidence Delay In Shooting Case Involving Murder Suspect Robert Newt DA Chesa Boudin tried to make it clear to the Police Commission this week that blame for the release of Robert Newt last month should be focused on the police and lengthy delays in forensic evidence testing.
SF News Cabal of Handbag Thieves Maybe Went From Union Square Saks to Palo Alto Neiman Marcus A heist of high-end handbags estimated to be worth $150,000 at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto may have been a second act for a group of enterprising thieves, who possibly also committed a similar theft in San Francisco a day earlier.
SF News Suspect In Two Potrero Homicides Was Released Without Charges After April 4 Shooting; SFPD Seeks Public's Help Finding Him San Francisco police linked a man to dozens of spent shell casings from a shooting on April 4 in which no one was injured. The District Attorney's Office released him without charges, pending further evidence. He's now wanted for murder and attempted murder.
SF Politics San Francisco Plans to Flood Mid-Market and Tenderloin With Cops and Community Ambassadors In Response to Chaos With financial help from UC Hastings — who last year sued the city over the homeless problem in the neighborhood — San Francisco is launching a new initiative aimed at taming the chaos and open-air drug market of the Tenderloin and Mid-Market.
SF News Two Killed, Multiple People Shot When Party Bus Gets Riddled With Bullets During Oakland Birthday Two young women were reportedly killed and possibly seven others were wounded when a party bus traveling on eastbound I-580 was shot up last night, during one woman's 21st birthday celebration.
SF News SFPD Offers Reward to Find Man Who Killed a Mission District Homeless Couple In 2016 The San Francisco Police Department has released a suspect sketch and is offering a $75,000 reward for information to help solve a cold case from 2016 in which a homeless couple was shot and killed.
SF News Parolee Out On Bail Mugs Elderly Woman In Japantown, Apprehended After Security Guard Alerts Police There was yet another attack on an elderly Asian person in San Francisco on Tuesday, and the alleged perpetrator is now in jail — but it's also another case of a repeat offender who was out on bail at the time of his latest crime.
SF News Did a Panhandling Suspect Slash a Guy's Face Near Union Square for Refusing to Give Him Money? The SFPD made an arrest Wednesday in a knife attack that may or may not have stemmed from the victim refusing to give a random stranger money when he asked for it.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Identifying Alleged Carjacker Who Severely Injured a 65-Year-Old Man Last Month Richard Mead was out late at night in San Francisco last month, at work on one of his latest hobbies, collecting scrap metal. He was picking through a dumpster near Union Square when he saw someone get into the driver's seat of his truck.
SF News Market Street Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder 54-year-old Patrick Thompson, the mentally ill man accused in last week's stabbing of two elderly Asian women on Market Street near Union Square, appeared in court for an arraignment Monday after refusing to do so on Friday.
SF News Verdict Reached In Italian Murder Trial of Bay Area Youths: Both Convicted, Given Life Sentences The two young men accused in the July 2019 fatal stabbing of a police officer in Rome were found guilty of murder by a jury on Wednesday and given the harshest sentences possible.
SF News Shootout at SFO Grand Hyatt Likely Connected to Carjacking Attempt; Investigation Continues A dramatic Monday evening shooting outside the new Grand Hyatt hotel at San Francisco International Airport involved at least two gunmen, and the suspects apparently tried to carjack a new getaway vehicle right around the time of the shooting.
SF News Two Elderly Asian Women Stabbed on Mid-Market, Suspect Arrested A pair of elderly Asian women were stabbed and seriously injured while waiting for a bus at 4th and Market streets on Tuesday, and a suspect was arrested a few blocks away.
SF News Trial of Bay Area Men Accused In 2019 Stabbing of Police Officer In Rome Concludes This Week The legal proceedings stemming from a tragic incident in July 2019 in Rome involving two teenagers from the Bay Area are still ongoing due to the pandemic, and this week, defense attorneys will present their closing arguments.
SF News One Wildfire In 2020's LNU Complex Believed to Have Been Arson to Cover Up Murder One of last August's wildfires that merged with others to become the LNU Lightning Complex fires is now believed to have been the result of arson — and the culprit, according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office, is a 29-year-old man who likely set the blaze to cover up an earlier murder.
