A man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting on San Francisco's 500 block of Fulton Street nearly 18 years ago has finally been arrested — not in the city where the crime happened, but more than 350 miles away in Los Angeles. San Francisco police say 40-year-old Derreyl Goode was taken into custody yesterday and booked into jail on suspicion of homicide, closing out one of the city's oldest unsolved cases.
The shooting happened at approximately 6:10 PM on April 27, 2008, according to an official news release from the San Francisco Police Department, which tracks the case as SFPD Case #080-441-145. Police have not released the identity of the adult male victim, and as reported by KRON4, the killer's identity remained unknown for nearly two decades. The 500 block of Fulton Street sits at the border of Hayes Valley and the Western Addition, just three blocks west of San Francisco City Hall, a stretch that has seen extensive redevelopment in the years since, per local reporting on the corridor.
SFPD's Cold Case Unit eventually identified Goode as the prime suspect, and investigators learned he had relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, before he was ultimately located in Los Angeles. On Monday, SFPD investigators teamed up with the U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest Regional Task Force to make the arrest. That task force operates as an interagency federal unit specialized in tracking violent fugitives across California, Nevada, and other regional jurisdictions, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Goode was transported to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department following his arrest.
A Suspect With Ties to the Neighborhood
Goode's connection to the area near the crime scene predates the shooting's resolution by years. In a 2018 broadcast profile, public radio station KALW identified Goode as a participant in San Francisco's CityBuild construction job-training program, where he said he grew up in the city's Western Addition — the neighborhood immediately adjacent to where the killing occurred a decade earlier.
Under California criminal procedure, investigators obtained what is known as a Ramey arrest warrant for Goode, a mechanism that allows peace officers to secure a judge's arrest authorization based on a sworn declaration of probable cause before prosecutors formally file charges. The process, rooted in the 1976 California Supreme Court ruling People v. Ramey, is detailed by the law firm Eisner Gorin LLP. Under that procedure, a suspect is typically held for up to 48 hours, excluding weekends and holidays, while police coordinate custody transfer and present findings to the local district attorney to evaluate formal Penal Code Section 187(a) murder charges, according to a breakdown from Cron Israels and Stark. It remains unknown whether the San Francisco District Attorney will formally file those charges once Goode is extradited.
A City That Struggled to Solve Killings in 2008
The arrest lands against the backdrop of just how difficult it was to close homicide cases in San Francisco, the year the Fulton Street shooting happened. San Francisco recorded 97 homicides in 2008 and suffered a two-decade low clearance rate of roughly 17% to 25%, according to historical reporting by SFGATE. That same year, a report from the California Department of Justice found San Francisco County posted the highest homicide rate among 35 evaluated counties statewide, at 11.6 homicides per 100,000 residents.
The contrast with today is stark. San Francisco recorded just 28 homicides in 2025 — the city's lowest annual total since 1954 — while the SFPD Homicide Unit posted a 125% clearance rate by resolving multiple cold cases from previous years, the department has said. SFPD has credited specialized units and federal partnerships for that clearance surge. The department's Cold Case Unit, which operates within the Homicide Detail, relies on re-examining physical evidence and renewed witness outreach, an approach that has contributed to several historic homicide arrests since 2020.
Goode's arrest joins a string of recent San Francisco cold case developments that Hoodline has tracked, including a case where an ex-officer's testimony shook a prosecution, as well as charges filed last November alleging torture and elder abuse in a 2011 Mission District killing. Open questions remain in the Fulton Street case, including the victim's identity, the motive behind the shooting, and whether prosecutors will move forward with murder charges once Goode is brought back to San Francisco.
