SF News Homeless Man Who Died In Golden Gate Park, a Notorious Hater and Attacker of Dogs, Gets ID'd Via DNA A homeless man in his 40s who was found dead in his sleeping bag near Metson Lake in Golden Gate Park in 2021 has been positively ID'd through DNA and forensic genealogy.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF News SFPD Offers $25K Reward For Information In Case of Homeless Man Whose Sleeping Bag Was Set On Fire San Francisco police are offering a $25,000 reward in the hopes of solving a cold case from last fall — a homicide in which a homeless man's sleeping bag was set on fire in the Mission District.
SF News Oakland Man Arrested for Fatally Setting Homeless Man on Fire A 58-year-old Oakland man is in custody on suspicion of killing another man by fire back in March.
SF News Spike In Fentanyl Potency In SF In June Led To 10 Deaths; Nonprofit Is Helping Reverse Overdoses While still dwarfed by numbers on the East Coast, the number of people overdosing on fentanyl in San Francisco has been on the rise — and one local nonprofit has helped distribute Narcan kits, giving people on the street more means to save each other from overdoses.
SF News The Other Homeless Count: How Many Have Died? On December 31, 2014, longtime homeless Castro figure "Anastasia" was found dead on Market Street. A rare event it was not, but people knew Anastasia — the scarves, the coffee cups — so perhaps it
