San Francisco police are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification and filing of charges against whoever killed 49-year-old Tavis Landry more than four years ago in the Bayview. Landry was shot and killed at the southeast corner of Wallace Avenue and Jennings Street on the morning of August 22, 2022, and the case remains unsolved.
According to the San Francisco Police Department, Landry was fatally shot at approximately 7:34 a.m. at the residential intersection, a broad-daylight killing that has gone unresolved for more than four years. Police published crime bulletin #22-115(a) alongside Wednesday's announcement, giving investigators a formal case reference as they renew the public appeal. Anyone with information is asked to contact Inspector Mark Lee #1983 at (415) 837-7016, or, after hours, the Department Operations Center at (415) 553-1071, according to San Francisco Police
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A Bayview Resident With Deep Community Ties
Landry was a longtime Bayview resident who had engaged in local civic life well before his death. In 2014, he spoke to KALW about how grocery store policies and EBT access affected residents in his neighborhood, reflecting a community that had long pushed for better commercial services in the city's southeast sector.
Before his death, Landry worked at Definition of Beauty, a San Francisco hair salon, according to a report by SFGATE. That same report noted Landry had witnessed and reported a 2010 street accident involving a city transit bus, a detail that underscores his years of living and working in San Francisco's commercial corridors.
Reward Rules Changed to Pay Out Faster
The $50,000 offer comes amid a broader shift in how San Francisco handles homicide rewards. In November 2025, SFPD launched its “You Can Help, Too” outreach campaign after the Board of Supervisors amended the city's Administrative Code to allow homicide rewards to be paid once criminal charges are filed, rather than requiring a full conviction.
Official SFPD Homicide Reward Fund guidelines specify that tipsters can submit information anonymously and remain eligible for reward money even if they have a history of prior arrests or criminal convictions — a policy echoed in Wednesday's statement that a criminal history does not disqualify someone from the reward. The change follows years of criticism over how the city's reward system functioned. An October 2022 investigation by the SF Standard found SFPD had paid out zero homicide reward funds over the preceding decade, a finding that helped spur the municipal reforms now in place.
A Cold Case Amid Shifting Crime Trends
San Francisco's broader homicide numbers have moved in sharply different directions in recent years. The city recorded 28 homicides in 2025, a 20% drop from 2024 and the lowest annual total since 1954, according to SFPD data reported by KTVU. SFPD's Homicide Unit also posted a 125% clearance rate that year, solving 34 cases by making arrests or resolving backlogged murders from prior years.
That progress has not fully carried into 2026. City crime reports from July showed 17 homicides year-to-date in San Francisco, a 42% increase compared to the same period in 2025, even as total gun violence incidents fell 18% citywide, according to the City and County of San Francisco. The renewed appeal in Landry's case arrives as police continue working to close out older, unsolved killings even as this year's homicide count ticks upward.
