What: San Francisco police are investigating the shooting of a man in the Potrero Hill neighborhood as a homicide after he succumbed to his injuries.
Why: The 23-year-old victim was in the back seat of a car that was dropping someone off on Watchman Way early Sunday morning when he was shot. The man died Tuesday morning at a hospital. It was the 20th homicide of the year in San Francisco.
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A teenage boy was killed and another teen and adult were injured in a shooting Friday night in the Bayview district, police Sgt. Daryl Fong said Monday. The victim was identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as Jaquan Morton, 17, of San Francisco. Morton was with two other people in the 1200 block of Griffith Street near Palou Avenue about 8:46 p.m. when all three were fired upon by unknown gunmen, Fong said.
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As budget season warms up, police Chief Greg Suhr is warning that The City’s low homicide rate could grow if more officers are not put on the streets.The Police Department’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year has increased to $480 million, Suhr told the Board of Supervisors budget committee last week. Nearly 90 percent of that is pre-negotiated pay, he said.
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A 21-year-old man was shot dead in the Western Addition on Monday night, the third young man to die by gun violence in San Francisco since Friday.Lawrence Richardson of San Francisco was shot while walking on the sidewalk in the 1800 block of Eddy Street just before 10:40 p.m., police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.He had just left a convenience store when gunfire erupted, he said.He was transported to the hospital, where he died around 11:45 p.m.
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A 39-year-old Central Valley man has been identified as The City’s ninth homicide victim this year after a shooting Friday evening in the Mission District.
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Richard Sprague was a peaceful, loving and selfless man who was simply trying to buy a pack of cigarettes before he was left to die on a Mission district side street early on a recent weekend morning.Sprague’s partner and also his sister, who are both still trying to come to grips with the callous killing Feb. 19, spoke Sunday with The San Francisco Examiner.
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A retired merchant mariner was stabbed to death in broad daylight in the Bayview on Wednesday, the second homicide in the neighborhood in a 24-hour period, police said.Luther Robinson, 54, was found in the 1400 block of Mendell Avenue near the intersection of Palou Avenue and Third Street about 1 p.m., police Sgt. Daryl Fong said. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died, Fong said.
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A man was arrested a block from the scene of a fatal stabbing Monday inside a homeless shelter in the South of Market District, San Francisco police said Tuesday. Ricky Leon Scott, 63, was booked into county jail on suspicion of murder at about 7:10 p.m. Monday night, just over 10 minutes after the stabbing at the St. Vincent de Paul Society shelter at 525 Fifth St.
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A 44-year-old man is dead after being stabbed while at a homeless shelter in The City’s South of Market neighborhood, police said late Monday. It was the fourth homicide reported in San Francisco this year.The stabbing occurred about 7:10 p.m. Monday at 525 Fifth St., police reported. The incident is still under investigation, but the wound the victim suffered “proved fatal.”
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Police are still hunting for three youths who beat an elderly man to death in a 2010 case that sparked racial tensions between blacks and Asians in the Bayview neighborhood.
A news conference will be held at the crime scene about 4 p.m. today.
Huan Zhou Chen, 83, had just left the Muni light-rail stop at Third Street and Oakdale Avenue on the evening of Jan. 24, 2010, and was on his way to his assisted-living facility when a group of boys assaulted him, police said.
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