A 17-year-old boy was shot multiple times after exiting a Muni bus in Visitacion Valley on Monday afternoon when a vicious gunman opened fire from the bottom step of the vehicle’s back doors, police said.Cops were called to the unit block of Garrison Avenue at 1:37 p.m. They found the teenager suffering from three to four gunshot wounds, police Officer Carlos Manfredi said Tuesday. Read More
San Francisco police are hunting for a thug who stabbed a man in the thigh in the South of Market neighborhood last week after he refused to give him $5.“You should have gave me what I asked for,” the suspect told the man before the attack in the unit block of Sixth Street about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said Monday. Read More
Seizure patients have a better chance of surviving without brain damage when paramedics inject them directly with medication, rather than starting an IV on the way to the emergency room, according to a nationwide study involving San Francisco paramedics and hospitals. Read More
Hearts in San Francisco: San Francisco General Hospital Foundation’s seventh public-art fundraising event, featuring iconic heart sculptures created by 14 artists and displayed around The City, took place Thursday at AT&T Park. Proceeds from the annual Heroes & Hearts luncheon — at which some of the hearts were auctioned — and the evening Hearts After Dark cocktail party support vital programs at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Read More
A man who was arrested by San Francisco police on a no-bail warrant was hospitalized Tuesday after a large baggie of methamphetamine was found stuffed in his belly button, police said.A Bayview Station cop brought the suspect to San Francisco General Hospital at about 6:50 a.m., saying he needed medical treatment before being booked into jail. Read More
A 25-year-old man found stabbed to death in the Outer Mission district Thursday later died at the hospital, marking the third homicide in San Francisco this year, police said.Police found the victim, who has yet to be identified, lying on the ground at Regent Street near Alemany Boulevard with puncture wounds to his chest about 9 p.m.He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Read More
A 56-year-old man was allegedly stabbed in the shoulder and neck during a spat over a barking dog in the Outer Sunset district on Sunday, police said.The stabbing occurred at Great Highway and Pacheco Street around 6:20 p.m. The victim had been arguing with a juvenile and a 19-year-old woman about their barking dog, police said. The juvenile allegedly “punched and stabbed” the man. The woman joined in, punching him several times, police said. Read More
A man was brutally beaten and robbed while giving a cigarette to an ungrateful thug at San Francisco’s U.N. Plaza Wednesday night, police said.The 45-year-old man suffered multiple nonlife threatening injuries in the 10:30 p.m. robbery. Read More
A San Francisco man was arrested for allegedly stabbing another man in the nose with a fork and biting him during a brawl about the noise level on a Muni bus, police said.Cops responded to the zany bus altercation at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Bay Street around 2:30 a.m.Both men were drunk, police said. The victim, a 45-year-old man, told the suspect, 46, to be quiet after he started “screaming and yelling” on the bus, Officer Albie Esparza said. Read More
This pickup soccer match wasn’t very “friendly,” after all.
Police are hoping to give a soccer player a whole lot more than a red card after he allegedly stabbed another player in the thigh during a game in the Mission district Monday.
The men got into some sort of disagreement about 1 p.m. during the match at the Garfield Square soccer field near 25th and Harrison streets, police Sgt. Daryl Fong said Tuesday. Read More
