Category: crime
Awful person pilfers plants, saddens six-year-old
July 1, 2016
Confirming that, yes, people are really that horrible, someone twice raided a Capp Street community garden of plants last month, including those belonging to a six-year-old boy. Monica Bhagwan, who gardens at the Alioto Community Garden at 20th and Capp streets, told me that the little boy’s garden bed was wiped out in both of […]
Two men wounded in Mission District shootings Sunday
June 27, 2016
One man was critically injured, another superficially wounded in a pair of shootings in the neighborhood on Sunday, police said. A 29-year-old man was shot in the abdomen around 12:15 a.m., near the corner of 24th and Shotwell streets, according to San Francisco police spokesman Carlos Manfredi. He is in critical condition at an area hospital. […]
Shootings latest in violent week for the Mission (updated)
June 16, 2016
UPDATE 6/17/16: The man shot at 16th and Mission streets Thursday morning was hit in the right leg in a drive-by shooting, police said. The 46-year-old victim was standing at a bus stop around 9:30 a.m., when two women in a silver Mercedes or Lincoln sedan with paper plates drove up and someone opened fire, said police […]
Early morning shooting in the Mission leaves man dead
June 14, 2016
The bullet hole from last nights gun fight. Lucky it went into an empty business. #sfist @SFPDMission pic.twitter.com/t7UWvmkGog — Shotwells Bar – Beer (@Shotwellsbar) June 14, 2016 A man died early Tuesday morning following a shooting near the intersection of 20th and Shotwell streets, police said. The injured man was shot sometime around 4 a.m. […]
Woman takes weave of her senses, robs store of fake hair
May 3, 2016
Bad hair days call for drastic measures, it seems. A woman walked into a store on the 2300 block of 16th Street in the Mission at around 6:15 p.m. yesterday, pulled out a knife and “cut a hair product from its secure location,” police said. After a woman in the store confronted her, the hair […]
Wanted: Mission burrito bandit
April 29, 2016
Talk about a hot burrito. A man robbed a Mission Street restaurant of a burrito early this morning, stabbing the person who tried to stop him, police said. According to authorities, the man ordered the burrito from a restaurant on the 2200 block of Mission Street around 12:30 a.m. then fled with his food without […]
Police seeking trio in Mission attack
April 8, 2016
Police have released photos of a man and two women believed to be connected to an assault at a Mission District restaurant last month. The 34-year-old victim, who suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack, was waiting in line at a restaurant near 16th and Valencia streets around 2:13 a.m. March 27, when another man attempted […]
Bus stop stabbing caps violent day
January 13, 2016
A group of as many as 10 people attacked and stabbed two men at a bus stop Tuesday night, leaving one of the victims with life-threatening injuries, police said. The men, ages 34 and 41 years old, were sitting at a stop at 18th and Mission streets when the group approached them around 8:30 p.m., […]
Former Fizzary spot turned nightclub vandalized this weekend (updated)
December 7, 2015
UPDATE 3 P.M.: Taylor Peck, the owner of the former Fizzary soda shop, told Capp Street Crap that he spray painted the messages on the front of the building yesterday in hopes of forcing authorities to do more about a dangerous new problem going on inside. “I’m in a really frustrating situation and this was a […]