SF News San Francisco Now Averaging One Homicide Per Week In 2026, With Latest on Sixth Street Gun violence has continued to be an unfortunate fact of life in San Francisco, and after a notable dip in the city's homicide count last year, the first nine weeks of the new year have now seen nine homicides, almost double last year's pace.
SF News One Dead In Potrero Drive-By Shooting, Two Others Injured One person was killed Friday morning and two others were injured in an apparent drive-by shooting in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood, near the affordable housing projects on Dakota Street.
SF News Suspect Arraigned In Tenderloin Homicide Is Claiming Self-Defense The 37-year-old suspect in a February 11 homicide on Turk Street was arraigned Wednesday, and his defense is claiming that he acted in self-defense. The victim, however, was shot in the back and was only armed with pepper spray.
SF News Nob Hill Robbery and Assault Victim Dies, Suspect Now Facing Homicide Charge San Francisco just notched another homicide in what has been an unusually violent start to the year, after a man who was attacked and robbed earlier this month just succumbed to his injuries.
SF News Arrest Made In Rincon Hill Killing of East Bay Rapper After Super Bowl San Francisco police have made an arrest in the February 9 shooting of Bay Area rapper Curnal, aka Keonte Antonio Deshawn Woods, on Harrison Street in Rincon Hill.
SF News Mother and Son Found Dead With Multiple Gunshot Wounds In Pleasanton A mother and son were both found dead inside a Pleasanton home on Wednesday, and the circumstances of their deaths remains unclear.
SF News San Francisco Sees Another Homicide, the Second In a Week San Francisco is seeing a rapid uptick in its homicide count so far in 2026, following a year with a historically low count. The latest killing occurred in the Tenderloin.
SF News Fatal Overnight Shooting In SF's Rincon Hill Area Leaves One Dead There was a fatal shooting early Monday on SF's Rincon Hill, near the entrance to the Bay Bridge, that left one person dead.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed Near 16th and Mission Streets, Arrest Made The Mission Street block where some of the Tenderloin's and Sixth Street's drug activity moved to last year was the scene of an apparent homicide Friday morning.
SF News Dismembered Body Found In Oakland Oakland police are investigating a possible homicide after a gruesome discovery over the weekend.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Suspect Arrested In Potrero Homicide A 38-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a Jan. 15 homicide in SF; a home in Napa County's Angwin burned to the ground this morning; and an SF high school has been seeing a tuberculosis outbreak.
SF News One Person Fatally Shot In Potrero Hill In SF's First Homicide of 2026 San Francisco saw its first homicide of the new year Thursday night, with one person found fatally shot at the edge of Potrero Hill.
SF News San Francisco Closed Out 2025 With Lowest Number of Homicides In 70 Years While one homicide is always too many, San Francisco can claim to have one of the most rapidly declining homicide rates in the land, and 2025 closed out with a record-low homicide total not seen since the 1950s.
SF News Oakland Opens New Year With Two Homicides, One Suspect Arrested There were two fatal shootings in Oakland on New Year's Day which occurred two and a half hours apart in different parts of the city.
SF News Man Fatally Shot Inside East Bay IHOP Where He Worked We're now getting some details about a Monday homicide in Richmond in which a man was killed in the restaurant kitchen where he worked.
SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In Livermore Roommate Killing The death of a 55-year-old man in Livermore led police there to suspect that the man's 3o-year-old roommate could be to blame. And one day after the body was discovered, the roommate was spotted in San Francisco.
SF News Man Fatally Shot While Sitting In Vehicle In SF's Tenderloin There was a fatal shooting early Tuesday in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and a male victim was reportedly found dead in his car.
SF News Victim In Ingleside Home Invasion Homicide Identified as 38-Year-Old Woman Some more information has emerged about the Sunday home-invasion robbery in Ingleside that resulted in a homicide, and the suspect has now been charged with murder.
SF News Arrest Made In Ingleside Burglary Turned Homicide San Francisco police have made an arrest in a shocking burglary that turned deadly on Sunday afternoon.
SF News What We Know About the Fatal Mission District Shooting Early Sunday A shooting on 16th Street in SF's Mission District Saturday night/early Sunday left one person dead and another critically wounded, and the crime may have been caught on camera by a passing Waymo.
SF News Three Young Men Arrested In Connection With July Homicide Near Fisherman's Wharf Three men, ranging in age from 19 to 22, have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another man in early July near SF's Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Four Found Dead In San Francisco Home, Including Children, In Possible Murder-Suicide A gruesome discovery was reportedly made by a family member Wednesday in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood, and while details remain slim, an entire family appears to be dead.
SF News Urban Alchemy Worker Fatally Shot Outside SF Main Library A street ambassador from the nonprofit Urban Alchemy who was on patrol outside the San Francisco Main Library on Friday was shot and killed, allegedly after asking the suspect in the case to stop using drugs in public.
SF News Fremont Man Charged With Stalking and Killing Sex Offender He Found on Megan's Law Website A Fremont man who apparently took some delight in killing a man he did not know who was listed on a sex offender website has been charged with his murder, and had a previous arrest in 2021 for hunting someone else he thought to be a pedophile.
SF News Walnut Creek Man Charged In Murder of Wife and Mother-in-Law A 43-year-old Walnut Creek man with an alleged history of domestic violence has now been charged with the murder of his wife and mother-in-law in the home that the three shared last week.
