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screenshot via Google Maps Two teenage boys - ages 14 and 15 - were arrested Wednesday night in connection with a fatal shooting of a security guard in San Francisco's Japantown neighborhood, officials said.The shooting occurred just after 5 p.m. on Webster Street at Post Street near the Japan Center Malls, the San Francisco Police Department said.

SAN FRANCISCO A 47-year-old Montgomery, Texas, man has been cited in connection with an attack on a United Airlines employee at San Francisco International Airport, officials said.The incident unfolded just before midnight Sunday at Terminal 3, according to separate statements issued by the airline and the San Francisco Police Department.

Police are looking for a man they say entered a San Francisco synagogue and fired several apparently blank rounds before running away.The man allegedly stepped inside a synagogue in the Richmond District Wednesday evening during a gathering, then made a verbal statement, pulled out a firearm and shot several times inside the building, police said in a statement.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Two days before his scheduled preliminary hearing for killing an unarmed man in 2017, former police officer Christopher Samayoa's defense team on Wednesday accused the District Attorney's office of withholding evidence, and has taken steps to have the case dismissed.

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Cash App founder Bob Lee died on the operating table in San Francisco last month after being stabbed three times, including through the heart, according to an autopsy report from the San Francisco chief medical examiner's office.Nima Momeni, a 38-year-old tech consultant and entrepreneur, is accused of killing Lee, 43.

Police found a dead man floating a few hundred yards offshore near the Hs Lordships Restaurant on May 1, 2023.Credit: Chris Benton Rescue workers have recovered the body of a second victim near where they found the remains of a first several weeks ago near the Berkeley Marina.Police said the two incidents have no connection.

A man allegedly shot another passenger Sunday evening on a No. 49 Muni bus near Mission and 13th streets, police said.The victim was taken to the hospital, and his condition is unknown.The incident occurred at about 5:51 p.m., according to police.The suspect, allegedly wearing a puffy gold jacket and carrying a plastic bag, fled on foot and appeared to have run northbound on 12th Street, according to the Citizen app.

Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE A male juvenile was stabbed on a Muni bus during a physical fight with multiple minors in San Francisco on Monday, officials said.The stabbing occurred at about 4:41 p.m. at Stockton and Sutter streets, about half a mile from Union Square, the San Francisco Police Department said.

We're now getting some specifics on the so-called crackdown coming to the Capp Street sex work trade, with an SFMTA map of the barriers that Supervisor Ronen's office tells us will be up by Friday, and SFPD teasing some enforcement details.The local political brouhaha is the purported crackdown on sex work on Capp Street, set to address a problem that has actually existed on the street for more than 25 years.

Image courtesy of SFPD Ever since Wild 94.9 radio host and DJ Jeffrey Vandergrift was reported missing in San Francisco on Friday, the hit station's vast community of listeners - and the Bay Area at large - have been searching for answers regarding the 54-year-old's sudden disappearance.The popular radio host was last seen Thursday, Feb. 23, his employer, Wild 94.9, wrote on Instagram.

Video surveillance onboard Muni vehicles and social media have played a key role in recent arrests of suspects committing crimes and harassing Muni passengers, transit officials said Tuesday at the Chinatown-Rose Pak station during a media roundtable.The City's Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin sent this message to anyone thinking of committing crimes onboard Muni vehicles:

"Anyone thinking about committing a crime on Muni will be caught.

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A month after the disappearance of popular Bay Area disc jockey Jeffrey Vandergrift, his body was found in the San Francisco Bay on Wednesday, according to the San Francisco medical examiner's office.The examiner's office released a statement Thursday, confirming Vandergrift's death, but it offered no further comment, including the cause of death.

Ex-fire commissioner Don Carmignani, who was allegedly struck with a metal rod by a homeless person - and has now been publicly accused of vigilante behavior possibly responsible for eight other assaults against homeless people in the Marina - failed to show up Thursday morning for a preliminary hearing.

After receiving a torrent of emails and calls from residents following a 4/20 shooting in Dolores Park, the San Francisco Police Department's Mission Station has increased its late afternoon and night patrol watches around the perimeter of Dolores Park.It has also committed to a fixed presence in the park on the next 4/20, the Mission Station captains announced at a virtual community meeting Tuesday.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Barricade is a big word for the "Road Closed" signs placed on Capp Street between 19th and 22nd streets in an attempt to curb sex work on the block.Breaching them does not require a Mack Truck; since their installation on Friday, the San Francisco Police Department has received three reports of vandalized or damaged barriers, and issued 12 traffic citations in the area.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.The "Road Closed" signs on Capp Street between 19th and 22nd streets were in good standing on Friday morning, a week after they were rolled out.And, by Saturday morning, they are slated to be replaced with concrete barricades.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.As pedestrians walked up Potrero near 23rd Street, an SFMTA officer warned of a fallen tree ahead and directed the southbound traffic to turn left onto 23rd toward Utah.Half of a large ficus tree outside of Walgreens at Potrero Ave. and 24th Street fell shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, crashing into a bus stop.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.The San Francisco Police Department reported tonight that a shooting on 24th Street left a male victim with life-threatening injuries.Police responded to reports of the shooting at 6:28 p.m.

Intern Taylor Fox contributed to this blog post.At the height of the George Floyd protests in 2020, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) thousands of demonstrators in real time by using a business district's network of over 300 cameras.The SFPD targeted protests against police brutality led by Black people and other people of color, chilling future racial justice protests by making people less likely to come out in the future out of fear of reprisals from police.

San Francisco police have reportedly launched a search for Chelsea Tamulevich, a 38-year-old woman suspected of abducting her 1-year-old son, Caspian, from a residential facility on Friday evening.CHILD ABDUCTION (1/2) Caspian Tamulevich was taken from a residential facility by his mother, Chelsea Tamulevich, who has no custody rights over Caspian and was not permitted to leave the facility with the child.

JasonDoiy/Getty Images/iStockphoto Gunfire in the San Francisco's Fillmore District on Tuesday night led to a police chase on the Bay Bridge that ended with several individuals being detained, officials said.The San Francisco Police Department said it responded to a report at 6:07 p.m. of gunshots on the 1200 block of Buchanan Street.

Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty A couple walking near San Francisco's Dolores Park were assaulted in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon by two women, police said.The 38-year-old woman and 45-year-old man told the San Francisco Police Department that they were walking on 18th Street next to the park when they were approached from behind by two women who they didn't know, a report from the department said.

Image courtesy of SFPD Bay Area radio host and DJ Jeffrey Vandergrift, known as Wild 94.9's JV, was reported missing Friday, officials announced.According to a statement released by the San Francisco Police Department, Vandergrift was last seen about 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at his San Francisco residence on the 200 block of King Street.

Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE San Francisco police officers were shot at while confronting three suspected catalytic converter thieves near the Richmond District, the department confirmed.Around 4:30 a.m.Tuesday, officers were dispatched near California Street and 9th Avenue after receiving reports of a catalytic converter theft in progress.

Screenshot via Google Multiple large-scale violent fights among several dozen children occurred last week at Stonestown Galleria, near San Francisco State University, SF police said.The series of chaotic altercations gained attention online through cellphone videos on various social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.

San Francisco officials have voted against allowing the police to kill suspects with remote-controlled robots.The city's board of supervisors reversed the policy it approved last week, following outcry and protests from citizens and civil rights groups.However, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the new ban is not necessarily permanent, and the issue has been sent "back to a committee for further discussion."

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted by a margin of 8-3 on Tuesday to grant the city's police department the legal authority to use remotely controlled robots to attack and kill suspects in certain circumstances.The measure was widely condemned  by civil liberty and police oversight organizations.

A suspect has been arrested in connection to a shooting at a synagogue in San Francisco's Outer Richmond neighborhood, according to ABC7.Several agencies, including the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI, were reportedly investigating after a man allegedly fired several blank rounds at the Schneerson Jewish Center and also entered a nearby theater brandishing a handgun.

San Francisco lawmakers voted to ban police robots from using deadly force on Tuesday, reversing course one week after officials had approved the practice and sparked national outrage.The city's board of supervisors voted to explicitly prohibit the San Francisco police department (SFPD) from using the 17 robots in its arsenal to kill people.