Periodically, Hoodline will round up some recent crimes and injuries in the Financial District and North Beach areas. Though not meant to be comprehensive, it should serve as a brief snapshot of recent activity to help locals stay informed. We'll also occasionally include snippets from SFPD Central Station Capt. David Lazar's newsletter.
This week, Capt. Lazar wrote that the Police Commission voted on April 15th to approve the plan for new boundaries for the 10 district police stations. "We, in the Central District, will be expanding our boundary to include Powell Street, South to #1 Powell, including the streets that run East from Powell, O’Farrell and Ellis to Grant," he wrote.
"In addition, we pick up Market Street, including both sides from 3rd Street to the Ferry Building and then south one block to Mission, excluding Mission. We should see this change within 60 to 90 days as the Department of Emergency Management updates the addresses in the Computer Assisted Dispatch system."
He also provided a quick and easy list of crime definitions, listed out some recent crimes of note in the district, and discussed some recent outstanding police work by by Officers Scott Korte and Robert Duffield, who arrested a bicycle thief. The full newsletter is online.
Here are more police calls from the past few days:
On April 10th at 5:20pm, a vehicle was making a left turn at Powell and Bay streets and struck a man of about 60 to 70 years old. He suffered a head injury and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The driver remained on the scene.
A 42-year-old woman was hit and killed at California and Kearny streets at 9:58pm April 10th during a car chase between SPFD and a black four-door sedan driven by three male armed robbery suspects. Read more.
At 10:26pm on April 10th, two African American men who were described as being about five feet, nine inches tall and about 200 pounds robbed a 31-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman. The suspects pulled out a handgun and demanded the victims get on the ground, and then demanded a phone and bag. The suspects fled on foot and no arrest was made.
Handgun shots were fired at 5:46pm on April 12th on the 2800 block of Leavenworth Street. Workers at a restaurant heard a boom sound, then noticed the sliding glass door at a nearby electronics store had shattered. One bullet fragment was found. There were no victims; the suspects were riding two orange motorcycles.
A 29-year-old man reported being robbed at gunpoint inside a red SUV at 2am on April 12th by two men at Broadway Street and Columbus Avenue. They took his smart phone, a wallet containing his driver's license, two debit cards and two credit cards. The victim was dropped off in an unknown area after the incident. He was intoxicated at the time and was unable to remember any further information.
Two men robbed a 23-year-old man at 12:35am on April 14th on the 300 block of Bay Street. They punched him several times in the face and then stole his backpack, wallet, cell phone, laptop and money. He suffered abrasions to his face, but refused medical treatment. The suspects fled the scene on foot.
On the unit block of North Point Street at 11:35pm on April 14th, a 25-to-30-year-old man pistol-whipped a 45-year-old man with a semi-automatic handgun and robbed him of his bag and glasses. He suffered a bump on the head and refused medical treatment.
At 11:59pm on April 15th at Bush and Kearny streets, a 38-year-old man driving a white Tesla struck a 56-year-old male pedestrian entering the crosswalk. The vehicle and driver remained on scene. The pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries to his neck and leg and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital.
And finally, on the 1100 block of Kearny Street at 1:41am on April 17th, a 27-year-old man walked by three other men and got into a verbal argument. One man got frustrated and punched the victim in the face, causing him to roll down the hill onto Broadway Street. The man was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with a non-life-threatening head injury. The suspect was arrested.
