Category: crime
Man dead after shooting at 19th and Capp (updated)
March 17, 2017
UPDATE 3/24/17: Two San Francisco residents have been arrested in the killing of a 44-year-old man in the Mission last week, police said. Jose Mejia-Carrillo, 22, and Alexis Cruz-Zepeda, 23, have charged with murder and conspiracy in connection with the shooting of Jorge Martinez, according to Giselle Talkoff, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department. A […]
Man, 38, killed in Valencia Street shooting (updated)
December 30, 2016
# yellowtape scene 14 Valencia & Duboce & Valencia street pic.twitter.com/C5OeFcJT2Q — Balance (@s_bridgid) December 30, 2016 UPDATE 11 a.m.: Capp Street Crap reader Josh tells me he was on his way to eat at Burma Love when police stopped him outside the police tape. He said he counted 10 police cars and six officers near the […]
Trouble bubbling again at former Fizzary location?
November 22, 2016
The alleged Mission Street gambling den that Capp Street Crap reported on extensively last year appears to have returned. According to a Mission Local article that cites unnamed neighbors, the same gambling operation that ran out of the former site of The Fizzary soda shop at 2949 Mission St. is back and using the Lilac […]
Teen injured in weekend shooting
October 10, 2016
A 13-year-old boy was shot in the Mission District early Sunday evening but is expected to recover from his injuries, authorities said. The shooting took place around 6:30 p.m. near the corner of 26th and Valencia streets, said San Francisco Police Sgt. Michael Andraychak. The teen was taken to an area hospital with injuries that […]
Pant-y raid
September 19, 2016
A man selling items on Mission Street as temperatures soared Sunday afternoon was reportedly beaten and robbed of an unlikely item: a pair of pants. According to authorities, the 64-year-old victim had items for sale on the sidewalk on the 1800 block of Mission, near 14th Street, when three or four people approached him around […]
Naked aggression? Officer injured in alleged attack by ‘partially nude’ man
September 15, 2016
It was no olive branch, apparently. A nude man who reportedly threw a stick at passersby in the Mission was arrested last Friday after allegedly assaulting a police officer. Robert Mathew Kaplan, 37, of San Diego, was arrested on suspicion of felony battery on a peace officer, felony battery causing serious bodily injury, felony assault with a […]
Group beats, stabs man near Dolores Park
August 29, 2016
A 25-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries during an attack by group of men near Dolores Park on Sunday, police said. At around 6:15 p.m. a group of as many as 10 men began chasing the victim through the park toward 18th and Church streets, said San Francisco Police spokeswoman Giselle Talkoff. When he fell in […]
Man, 42, critically wounded in Capp Street shooting
August 15, 2016
A 42-year-old man is in critical condition following a shooting on Capp Street Saturday night, police said. The victim was found shot on the ground near Capp and 19th streets at around 10:37 p.m., according to San Francisco Police spokesman Carlos Manfredi. The site of the shooting, the El Capitan parking lot, was taped off […]
Pokémon Go enthusiast robbed of his phone in Mission
August 11, 2016
A man playing the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go found himself the victim of a real life crime last week when his phone was snatched in the Mission, police said. The man was playing Pokémon Go while walking down Mission Street on Aug. 4, when Damarea Williams-Evans grabbed his phone out of his hand, […]
Man killed, another injured in shooting (updated)
July 2, 2016
UPDATE 7/4/16: A distraught friend who I spoke with near a memorial set up on Shotwell Street said the dead man’s name was Rigo and he was 28 years old. The friend, who did not want to give his name, said he’d known Rigo since the two were kids. The friend did not know Rigo’s last name […]