SF News Potrero Avenue Shooting Victim Identified as Father of Three Who Helped U.S. Army in Afghanistan A November armed robbery took the life of a man now identified as Ahmad Fawad Yusufi, the sole provider for three young children, who’d assisted the U.S. in the Afghanistan war.
SF News Man Shot and Killed Attempting to Thwart Car Burglary Near Lake Merritt Pergola It’s unclear whether he tried to disrupt the burglary of his own car, or someone else’s, but an unidentified man was killed Sunday afternoon trying to stop a car burglary around Lake Merritt.
SF News Arrest Made In High-Rise Double-Homicide In Oakland The killing of two people in an Oakland high-rise on Wednesday night may have been a "domestic incident," and Oakland police say they now have one suspect in custody.
SF News Haight Street Shooting Now a Homicide, as Victim Dies Three Weeks Later In one of the three shootings in three weeks on Haight Street, the victim in the October 23 nighttime shooting has now died, so the investigation will continue as a homicide.
SF News SF Will Begin Paying People to Not Shoot Other People The program will be called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, though likely to be dubbed “Cash for Criminals” in the media, and will pay select people $300 a month to avoid gun incidents.
SF News 16-Year-Old Girl Killed Friday In Bayview Had Just Moved to San Francisco; Family Pleads With Shooter to Come Forward A teenage girl and her aunt were shot Friday night in SF's Bayview District, and family members attended a press conference Thursday in which they issued an emotional plea for the killer to come forward.
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 Police: Fremont Teenager Stabs Parents, Killing Mother and Wounding Father On Friday around 12:30 a.m., a 14-year-old boy was found covered in blood after allegedly stabbing both his parents — killing his mom and leaving the dad with severe injuries — according to Fremont police.
SF News Oakland Homicide Rate Is Up 30% Over Last Year After Three Weekend Shootings As we mark the halfway point in the year, Oakland has just marked its 66th homicide of 2021, with someone killed on average every three days in the city so far since January.
SF News San Jose Woman Allegedly Confessed to Strangling 7-Year-Old Son Because She Was Frustrated With Him The 35-year-old San Jose woman arrested in Denver on June 8 following the discovery a week earlier of her 7-year-old son's body near a hiking trail in Las Vegas has reportedly confessed to killing the boy in frustration.
SF News Two Killed in Separate Saturday Shootings in Potrero Hill A man who was shot Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood has died, marking now the second killing to have occurred in the area this weekend — and the third homicide recorded in SF since Friday.
SF News Homicide Investigation Underway After Suspected Arson Fire Kills Father and Daughter in Oakland What's being investigated as an arson fire killed a 37-year-old father and his one-year-old daughter inside their Oakland home early Saturday morning; police have deemed the incident a double homicide.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: One Person Killed In Mission District Shooting There was a shooting at 24th and Mission in SF last night that left one person dead, a 19-year-old has turned himself in for a Muni assault in October, and Oakland is welcoming back its littlest students today in Pre-K to second grade.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
SF Politics DA Boudin Faces Another Round of Outrage Over ‘Temper Tantrum’ Comment One out-of-context sentence from a New York Times interview is the latest fodder for right-wing media and the Recall Chesa crowd to throw, well, temper tantrums.
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Fatally Stabbed at SoMa Skate Park, 19-Year-Old Suspect Arrested The SoMa West Skatepark on Duboce Avenue was the site of a homicide Monday evening, following an altercation between two young men.
SF News Russian Man In Sunnyvale Confesses to Killing Wife and Daughter A tragic case is unfolding in the South Bay after a software engineer walked in to a police station on Wednesday and confessed to killing his wife. His 11-year-old daughter was found dead as well.
SF News Two Men Arrested In Tracy For Broad Daylight Murder Of Oakland Man Oakland police have arrested two men in connection with a January 11 murder of 58-year-old man in West Oakland, and both men were arrested outside the county, in Tracy.
SF News 40-Year-Old Father and 9-Year-Old Son Found Dead in Marina District in Possible Murder-Suicide The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a possible murder-suicide that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the Marina District.
SF News Despite Violent Year Around the Bay and the Nation, SF Is Set to Record Similar Homicide Rate to 2018 San Francisco's homicide count stands at 48 as we enter the waning hours of 2020, marking a slight uptick from the record-low number of killings in the city in 2019, but nearly on par with the count from two years ago.
SF News Woman Found Dead Inside North Beach Apartment in Possible Homicide San Francisco police came across the scene of an apparent homicide inside a North Beach apartment building Friday afternoon, leading to the arrest of a yet-named male suspect.
SF News Suspect Arrested In February Homicide Following Muni Bus Altercation A 38-year-old Piedmont man has been arrested and charged in the homicide of a San Francisco man, following a fight between the two men that began on a Muni bus.
SF News 25-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Killed In East Oakland Saturday Night A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded in Saturday night shootings in East Oakland that took place within minutes of each other.
SF News Suspect In Seemingly Random June Killing of UC Berkeley Student Confessed, Says Friend Murder charges were filed in August against a neighborhood resident with a criminal past, and now a key witness has testified that the suspect confessed to the killing in the weeks after it happened.
SF News Daughter and Son-in-Law Who Killed and Dismembered Elderly Outer Mission Man Get Light Sentences In Plea Deal Defense attorneys successfully argued that there was no evidence of malice before the killing, and prosecutors reportedly had difficulty establishing who did what to whom first, with the defense claiming self-defense.
