Mourners described the victim of a fatal shooting Monday in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood as a well-loved man who had given his kidney to save his mother’s life.
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San Francisco cops averted potential disaster Sunday when they reached into a passed-out driver’s car window in the middle of an intersection and put the vehicle’s gear into park.The police patrol car had pulled up behind the allegedly drunken man’s vehicle at Alemany Boulevard and Geneva Avenue around 1:20 a.m. The traffic light turned from red to green and then again to red, but the car ahead did not move, police said. The driver was passed out with his foot on the brake.
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This running nut cracked far away from Bay to Breakers.The pantless man allegedly smashed the window of a vehicle in the Outer Mission neighborhood Sunday around 3 p.m., and may have stolen items, police said.A witness reported seeing the man “running around Mission Street with no pants on,” police said. Cops also heard on dispatch about the suspect involved in the window smash.
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A 17-year-old girl was struck on the forehead with the butt of a gun Thursday during a robbery in the Crocker Amazon neighborhood.
The suspect, also a teenager, grabbed cash from the girl’s hands in the 1500 block of Geneva Avenue around 10:30 p.m., police said. The woman was hit after she tried to wrestle the money back, they said.
The girl’s injury was not life threatening, according to police.
The suspect fled on foot and there has been no arrest.
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An elderly woman was killed Tuesday after an unlicensed driver struck her as she was crossing the street near the Cow Palace, police said.Maria Francisco, 82, of San Francisco, was pronounced dead at the scene after a black van plowed into her in the 1700 block of Geneva Avenue around 5 p.m., authorities said.She had been crossing the street in front of her home and was not in a marked crosswalk, police Lt. Troy Dangerfield said Wednesday.
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