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From the police blotter: good news: they caught the guys. Bad news, some innocent bystander's van got shot up.

4:15 pm Cesar Chavez and Bryant Streets

Ingleside and Mission Station officers responded to the neighborhood on the call of shots fired. Citizens reported seeing a gunman firing shots from an SUV. The investigation brought officers to the first block of Gold Mine Drive in the Diamond Heights neighborhood. There the officers found a handgun and ammunition. Three males: a 19 year old from the Mission District, another 19 year from Diamond Heights, and a 17 year old from the mid-Market Street neighborhood, were arrested for aggravated assault and gang charges.

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San Francisco Crime: Two Mission District shootings kill 1, injure 3: "A 16 year-old boy was shot in the arm and leg at 26th and Shotwell Streets at 7:30 p.m. He was transported to SFGH with non-life-threatening injuries."

(Via the excellent San Francisco Crime Blog and tipster Marijane.)

SF Gate also has this:

A teen was transported to a local hospital after being shot in the arm and leg while in the Mission District Saturday, according to a San Francisco Police Department spokesman.
The 16-year-old victim was standing at the corner of 26th and Shotwell streets around 7:30 p.m. when the suspect allegedly approached him and fired shots for no reason, spokesman Neville Gittens said.
The victim sustained gunshot wounds to one arm and one leg and was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, said Gittens.
Police suspect the incident may have been gang-related.

So that accounts for the sound of gunfire and the tons of sirens shortly thereafter.

There was another fatal shooting at this same location in December of 2006. Because of that, several cameras were installed at that intersection. Apparently, the cameras had no deterrent effect on this crime.







We wonder if the cameras recorded anything useful, or if they help expedite the arrivals of police and ambulances? Or were they useful at all?

Labels: crime, gang, gangs, Neighborhood Watch, police blotter, Precita Park

We were talking with some neighboars who live up near the end of the stairway on Harrison (above Rutlidge) and they were commenting on all the gang activity that takes place after dark on those stairs.

But the thing that shocked us was hearing that several times in the last six months, they've walked down Harrison and seen a string of car break-ins, smashed windows, cars burglarized.

If you notice gang activity or tagging in that area, please call Ingleside Police Station at 404-4000 immediately. The community really needs to make sure that the gang activity on the stairway and surrounding streets stops as soon as possible.

Also, if you car does get broken into, please file a police report. We are not seeing these break-ins reported in the police log, and if they cops don't know about it they won't be looking out for it as much.

Labels: car breakings, gang, gangs, graffiti, Precita Valley Neighbors

05/05/07 8:15 pm Alabama and Precita

Officers Melonee Alvarez and Shawn Phillips spotted a known and wanted gang fugitive on Precita. When the suspect saw the officers, he took off running. The officers chased him eight blocks, up hills, to the backyard of a residence on the 200 block of Mullen. At that location they captured him and arrested him for a no bail San Mateo County probation warrant and for resisting arrest. Case #070463472

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