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.
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In the first homicide of the year in The City, an unidentified man was cut down early Thursday on the squalid Sixth Street corridor, just yards from where a new police substation has been planned.
The victim, about 30 years old, was found lying near the corner of Sixth and Stevenson streets just south of Market Street about 2:30 a.m., police said. The man, who had been stabbed in the torso, died at a hospital nearly an hour later.
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Years in the making, a police substation along Sixth Street to help turn around the crime-plagued area is on schedule to open next summer if approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
The Sixth Street substation is part of The City’s plan to revitalize the mid-Market Street area.
The substation is expected to open in June, around the same time the microblogging service Twitter plans to move into its new headquarters on Market and 10th str
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A teenage girl and a woman were recovering at a hospital but still in serious condition Monday after being shot Saturday morning at a South of Market intersection that’s been plagued by violence.
A 15-year-old girl and 43-year-old woman were standing at Sixth and Minna streets about 2:15 a.m. when the gunfire began, said police spokesman Officer Carlos Manfredi.
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A 23-year-old parolee has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded two people — including an innocent bystander — in the South of Market district Saturday, police said Monday.
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UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: Arrest made in connection to shooting. Read here:
Police investigating a weekend South of Market shooting that wounded two people – including an innocent bystander – said Monday the gunman fled in a black limousine with nine other people.
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A screaming man who was engulfed in flames ran out of an adult bookstore in the South of Market district in San Francisco on Wednesday night.
The unidentified man suffered life threatening burns after the bizarre blaze at Sixth and Mission streets, police and fire officials said.
Police and fire personnel were in the area responding to a separate call when the man jetted out of the Golden Gate Adult Superstore at 99 Sixth St. around 6:20 p.m.
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City officials want to throw more money at some of the biggest problems in the South of Market area: blight, crime, vacancies and unsavory businesses.
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The Department of Public Works will team up with Caltrans and various community organizations on Wednesday to unveil a new street park on Sixth Street.
The new street park will be located on Sixth Street, between Brannan and Bluxome streets, and is part of an initiative to keep busy city gateways clean and green, according to DPW documents.
The unveiling of the park will happen at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at the new site on Sixth Street.
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