One dead, seven injured in violence from the Mission to the Marina
By: Tamara Barak Aparton
Examiner Staff Writer
July 10, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — A violent Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in San Francisco left one man dead and seven people injured.
The series of shootings and stabbings began Thursday at 2:08 p.m. with the death of 38-year-old Charles Eason. Police responded to a car accident in the 100 block of Dakota Street near the Potrero Hill projects. They found Eason inside a vehicle, suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at San Francisco General Hospital.
Three hours later in the Portola neighborhood, attackers flashed gang signs at a bicyclist before stabbing him at San Bruno Avenue and Bacon Street, police said. The victim is expected to survive.
The violence continued into Friday morning. A 1:15 a.m., a gunman shot a man and woman at a North Beach club in the 500 block of Broadway Street, police said. Both victims are expected to recover.
Between 1:56 a.m. and 3:20 p.m., police responded to four separate stabbing incidents, all resulting in non-life threatening injuries. In the first, a man in a group of six suspects stabbed another man in a fight on 30th and Mission Streets. At 2 a.m., an altercation in the Marina District at Scott and Chestnut streets resulted in a man being stabbed. At the same time, a man was stabbed in a fight at Broadway and Kearny streets in North Beach.
At 3:20 am., a man was stabbed after two male suspects confronted him at 24th and Mission streets.
