At 5:44 p.m. on Thursday, 21-year-old Diondre Young posted a rhyme on Facebook that mentioned friends who had died and asked whether his “time could be next.”
Young’s “time,” it turned out, was just hours away, as he was found shot dead early the next morning in the Rincon Hill area.
Read More
A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over more than 100 workers in The City’s now-defunct Redevelopment Agency, which was eliminated late last year by state legislation and subsequent legal wrangling.Under the legislation that killed about 400 agencies statewide, cities and counties are allowed to appoint oversight boards to continue work that was already under contract, but projects not far enough along — and the staff that oversaw them — will be scrapped.
Read More
Talk about a high return for a home investment. A woman who recently purchased a property in Visitacion Valley got more than she bargained for Friday when she entered the property and discovered an illegal marijuana-growing operation, police said.
Read More
Cops witnessed a gun-toting goon chase down two teenagers in the Bayview on Sunday, police said, before fleeing from pursuing officers. Police were on Fitzgerald Avenue near Griffith Street when they reportedly heard gunshots and saw two teenage boys run out from between buildings onto Fitzgerald. The cops then said a man in his 20s started chasing the youngsters.
Read More
Can’t we all just get along? Two people were cut and stabbed in separate roommate arguments last weekend, police said Monday, in the latest incidents of deteriorating domestic relations. The first attack occurred about 5:48 p.m. Friday in the 900 block of Jackson Street, police said. A 43-year-old man was involved in an argument with his roommate, a 32-year-old man, and it turned physical, police said. The 32-year-old stabbed the other man in his torso.
Read More
An elderly man taking a photograph in McLaren Park got an image of hell when he was pistol-whipped and robbed of his camera, police said.The 76-year-old man was taking photos in the park near Mansell Street and Visitacion Avenue about 11:15 a.m. A gun-toting crook surprised the man, snatching his camera and attempting to steal his backpack, police said. The victim struggled to keep the backpack and the crook pistol-whipped him, knocking him to the ground.
Read More
The nerve of these thugs!
Two women were terrorized by two gunmen in separate purse-snatchings Thursday.
One masked, gun-toting man had the gall to rob a woman walking with her three children in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood Thursday afternoon, according to San Francisco police.
Read More
An 11-year-old girl was hospitalized after being grazed by bullet Friday afternoon in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco.
Police were responding to a ShotSpotter activation on the unit block of Leland Avenue about 3:45 p.m. Callers to 911 said several suspects fired toward a minipark at Leland and Peabody Street.
Read More
A 28-year-old woman was beaten, robbed and kidnapped by five ruffians in Visitacion Valley on Saturday, cops said. The woman was walking in the 600 block of Schwerin Street around 2:30 a.m. when she was approached by three men and two women in their 30s, police said. The five proceeded to punch the woman before pushing her into a sedan-type car, cops said.
Read More
Two people were wounded, including a woman standing on her front lawn, when gunfire erupted Saturday night in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood, San Francisco police said.The shooting took place just after 8 p.m. near the basketball courts at Santos Street and Brookdale Avenue.
Read More
URL: http://www.sfexaminer.com/taxonomy/term/41977
