SF News Person With Gun Reported In Salesforce Park, SFPD Does Not Locate Suspect A person with a gun was reported Monday morning at Salesforce Park atop the Transbay/Salesforce Transit Center, though the report remains unconfirmed despite police responding to the scene.
SF News Two Men Shot On Mission Street Near Cesar Chavez Wednesday Night Two men were shot and seriously injured Wednesday night on the 3100 block of Mission Street, between Cesar Chavez and Valencia.
SF News 19-Year-Old Bay Area Man Jailed In Italy For Cop Killing Claims Self-Defense The 19-year-old primary suspect in the Friday killing of 35-year-old Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome has told a judge in the case that he acted in self-defense.
SF News Family and Friends of SF Teens Accused Of Slaying of Italian Cop 'Shocked and Dismayed' 19-year-old Finnegan Elder and 18-year-old Gabriel Natale Hjorth, two graduates from Tamalpais High School’s class of 2018, were accused of slaying 35-year-old Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega earlier this weekend. Now, those close to the vacationing duo are speaking out.
SF News Two 19-Year-Olds From San Francisco Jailed In Italy For Stabbing Policeman A pair of 19-year-old men from San Francisco have reportedly confessed to the fatal stabbing of a police officer in Italy, following an alleged scuffle over a bag that belonged to a drug dealer.
SF News ‘Rideshare Rapist’ Charges To Proceed, Despite Allegations of Improperly Collected DNA A judge refuses to toss rape and kidnapping charges against Orlando Vilchez Lazo, even though the DNA sample used to bust him may have been obtained illegally.
SF News Third Fatal Shooting In Three Days Has Police Chief On Edge Three separate shooting incidents took three lives in less than 72 hours, and it probably doesn’t help the current discourse that the latest shooting was at a homeless shelter.
SF News SF Homicide Rate On Track For Historic Low In 2019 While it's too soon to say for sure, at the mid-year mark, San Francisco is poised to see an even lower homicide count this year than it did last year — with a murder rate lower than it's been in the city since the early 1960s.
SF News After Three Decades In SF, Woman Says Finding Burglars' Hypodermic Needle In Her Dining Room Is The Last Straw A woman who's lived in San Francisco nearly 30 years says she may finally be done with San Francisco after her historic home on 18th Street was broken into — and the burglars left heroin works, including a used hypodermic needle, on her dining room table.
SF News Tourist Mowed Down By Car While Trying to Thwart A Break-In Of His Own Car A trip to the Legion of Honor went from bad to worse Tuesday afternoon, as a 46-year-old man noticed his car being broken into, and was promptly run down by the thieves’ getaway vehicle.
SF News [Updated] 15-Year-Old Boy Killed in 24th Street Shooting A teenager was shot and killed in the Mission District Sunday night, and the suspect vehicle involved in the shooting managed to evade police. The victim died at the scene.
SF News Solano County Teens Accused Of Online Dating Scam Where Victims Were Shot, Robbed Three Woodland teens allegedly lured their victims to a remote area, gave them a little taste of action, but then shot and robbed them.
SF News Report: Violent Crime on BART More Than Doubled In Four Years Robberies have more than doubled on BART since 2014, assaults are way up too, and officials are blaming the age-old bogeyman of fare evasion — though it's clearly more complicated than that.
SF News Duboce Park Area Resident Detained For Chasing Down, Allegedly Assaulting Car Burglar In the heat of Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, one SF resident near Duboce Park decided to take justice into his own hands after seeing a man outside his apartment breaking into his car.
SF News Sonoma County Man Pleads No Contest In 2004 Jenner Beach Murders, Killing Of Brother On the eve of his trial for both the 2017 murder of his brother and the highly publicized 2004 double homicide of a couple who were camped on a beach in Jenner, 40-year-old accused killer Shaun Gallon entered a new plea of no contest Thursday.
SF News Three Men Charged In Succulent Poaching Ring Worth $600,000 Three men, all South Korean nationals, have been charged by federal authorities in California after poaching $600,000 worth of prized succulents from the Northern California coast.
SF News Suspect ID'd In Wild Wednesday Hit-And-Run Rampage In the Tenderloin The allegedly intoxicated suspect hit two pedestrians and at least six cars, in a police-chase rampage that was captured in shocking video.
SF News BART Police Issue New Warning Amid Uptick In Cell Phone Thefts On Trains You've heard the advice before on BART and Muni, but maybe you need to hear it again: Keep your head up and not in your phone if you want to keep from having your phone snatched out of your hands by a thief.
SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In String Of Violent Bayview Robberies That Targeted Women The 52-year-old man had allegedly attacked at least eight women, all of them walking alone at night, in a rash of assaults dating back to January.
SF News Arrests Made, Two Suspects Charged In Outer Mission Dismembered Body Case Police say they have made arrests in the case of the apparent murder of 73-year-old Benedict Ching, and they believe that his were the remains found in the home on Del Monte Street on Monday.
SF News Alleged Rapist of 74-Year-Old Woman Disputes His Confession, Pleads Not Guilty A new twist in the grisly case of the rape and kidnapping of an elderly woman, as the defense is now disputing the confession that the suspect made when he was arrested.
SF News Suspect In Friday Homicides In Bayview and Oakland Arrested In Nevada The 43-year-old man sought in connection with two, if not three Friday murders in the Bay Area led authorities on a high-speed chase from South Lake Tahoe down into Douglas County, Nevada Friday night where he allegedly shot an officer in the hand.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Beloved Tenderloin Dive the High Tide Has Closed Another beloved dive bar bites the dust, a 19-year-old woman was struck by a big rig truck near Balboa Park BART, and the suspect in that attempted kidnapping of a toddler in the Castro is an Australian man.
SF News Attempted Kidnapping Of Toddler Thwarted In Castro Several bystanders helped a mother to fend off a would-be kidnapper Friday afternoon in a bizarre Castro neighborhood incident that did not, as some might immediately suspect, involve one of the neighborhood's homeless people.
SF News Uber Driver Arrested For Attempted Burglary At Passenger’s House The alleged four-hour ransacking of a San Mateo home was all captured on Ring security footage, and it was the driver’s second burglary attempt of the day.