A 19-year-old man who was shot in the knee at a San Francisco park Thursday is not playing ball with cops, police said.
The shooting was reported just after 5 p.m. in the 600 block of Capitol Avenue, which is in the Oceanview neighborhood.
The man went to San Francisco General Hospital with non life threatening injuries.
The victim “refused to provide any information regarding the incident,” police said.
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A man was sliced on the shoulder with a knife in the South of Market district Tuesday after refusing to donate cash to a down-on-his-luck thug, police said.The 54-year-old victim was walking in the 900 block of Howard Street, near Eighth Street, when the needy hooligan asked for money around 12:50 a.m. Read More
A shooting in the Mission district that seriously wounded a 32-year-old man on Sunday may have been gang related, police said.
The victim suffered multiple bullet wounds in the back while running for dear life from the gun-toting thug at 26th and Harrison streets. The shooting was reported at 9:15 p.m.
Officers found the victim lying on the sidewalk, police spokesman Sgt. Carlos Manfredi said. He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital. Read More
Brian Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan beaten outside Dodger Stadium on Opening Day, is resting comfortably in an undisclosed rehabilitation center, after leaving San Francisco General Hospital on Tuesday.
Stow, 42, of Santa Cruz, spent five months at San Francisco General Hospital, beginning his recovery from long-term brain injury the beating in the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Read More
A double-murder suspect who is refusing to eat and is possibly suicidal should be forcibly kept alive, lawyers for The City will argue Friday.The City Attorney’s Office has filed a civil court petition in the case of Hong Ri Wu, office spokesman Jack Song said Wednesday. Wu is in a jail medical unit at San Francisco General Hospital and has reportedly been surviving for more than a month on just water. Read More
Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan beaten on Opening Day outside Dodger Stadium, left San Francisco General Hospital for long-term brain-injury rehabilitation, the hospital announced Tuesday.Stow, a 42-year-old paramedic from Santa Cruz and father of two young children, was attacked outside the Los Angeles ballpark after a game between the Dodgers and the Giants on March 31. Read More
Police still don’t know why a Richmond district man attacked his family, but the department’s chief defended the actions of officers who shot and killed the man after he reportedly stabbed family members Monday morning.
During a calm community meeting Tuesday night, police Chief Greg Suhr told neighborhood residents the officers did all they could — including using a nonlethal weapon on the man — before firing at him with a gun. Read More
The San Francisco Medical Examiner has identified the pedestrian who was fatally struck by a vehicle Monday night as Sulpicio Jimenez, 57, of Daly City.Jimenez was not in the crosswalk when he was hit by a northbound car at Mission at Excelsior streets around 7 p.m., police said Tuesday.Jimenez was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died, according to police. Read More
A 51-year-old man was fighting for his life after being stabbed in the chest and slashed on the shoulder in the Mission district Wednesday, police said.Police arrested a 48-year-old woman they believe carried out the vicious attack in the 500 block of South Van Ness Avenue, between 16th and 17th streets, around 10:50 p.m.A motive for the attack was not immediately known.The victim is being treated at San Francisco General Hospital.maldax@sfexaminer.com Read More
Sheriff Michael Hennessey is planning to seek a court order to force doctors at San Francisco General Hospital to feed a patient charged with a double murder and end his hunger strike.Hong Ri Wu, 57, who is being held in San Francisco General Hospital’s acute care facility, stopped eating three weeks ago, Hennessey said. Wu is accused of shooting and killing in January a man and woman who ran a Fisherman’s Wharf business that competed with Wu’s. Read More
