Teen Shot on Muni Bus

A 17-year-old boy was critically injured when he was shot after getting off of a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus in the city's Visitacion Valley neighborhood on Monday afternoon, a police spokesman said today. The shooting was reported shortly before 1:40 p.m. in the first block of Garrison Avenue. Officers responded and found the teen lying on the ground with three or four gunshot wounds to his torso, police spokesman ......
By Bay City News Service   3/13/12 10:51 a.m. PDT

Boy Hit by Bus While Crossing SF Street

A five-year-old boy was hit by a shuttle bus while crossing a street in San Francisco's Bayview District this afternoon and was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. A woman was walking with two children southbound on Third Street at Williams Street at around 3:30 p.m. The woman had a one child immediately with her and the five-year-old was trailing behind her as they crossed the street, according ......
By Bay City News Service   9/08/11 7:38 p.m. PDT

Prosecutor: SF Attorney Sexually Assaulted Women He Met on Craigslist

A San Francisco attorney accused of sexually assaulting at least three women he met through Craigslist since March pleaded not guilty earlier this week, prosecutors said today. Robert Hoffman, 50, faces nine felony charges including rape, forced oral copulation and sexual battery, district attorney's spokeswoman Erica Terry Derryck said. Hoffman allegedly sexually assaulted a 36-year-old East Bay woman in March, a 19-year-old San Francisco woman in June and a 25-year-old ......
By Bay City News Service   8/17/11 4:02 p.m. PDT

Suspect Arrested for Hit-and-Run of 9-Year-Old Phillies Fan

With the help of witnesses and a neighboring law enforcement agency, San Francisco police have a suspect in custody in connection with a hit-and-run that critically injured a 9-year-old boy Thursday night. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the boy, Ryan White, was visiting San Francisco from Philadelphia with his family, and had gone to see the Phillies play the San Francisco Giants. White and his family were walking back ......
By Bay Citizen Staff   8/05/11 2:01 p.m. PDT

SFPD: Bicyclist Critically Injured in Collision with Truck

A female bicyclist in her 20s suffered life-threatening injuries this morning in a collision with a Berkeley Farms food distribution truck at Mission and Fremont streets in San Francisco, police said. The woman was headed east on Mission Street and was hit by the westbound truck as she turned left onto Fremont Street just after 8 a.m., police Lt. Troy Dangerfield said. Both the truck driver and the bicyclist had ......
By Bay City News Service   7/20/11 11:33 a.m. PDT