San Francisco police are responding Thursday afternoon to an officer-involved shooting in the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood.
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KTVU reports that an officer-involved shooting may have occurred, and Officer Albie Esparza told us that an officer shot a suspect on the scene, though there’s no word yet on injuries. Per the Examiner: The incident unfolded just after 12 p.m. when two sergeants driving south on Eighth Street were flagged down by a construction worker at the southeast corner of Eighth and Market streets, who reported a man was throwing bottles at construction equipment, Suhr said. Suhr said he was a Hispanic man in his 20s.
According to the newspaper, Suhr said the man and the sergeants engaged in an altercation and that the man grabbed one sergeant’s gun.
The sergeant got on top of the suspect and then yelled to his partner, He’s getting my gun. Both were senior officers, Suhr said.
“He’s getting my gun, he’s getting my gun, he’s got my gun, shoot him”, the sergeant said before the noontime shooting, according to Suhr. The man died at the scene. Two casings were found on the ground, and it’s believed that two shots were fired. One suffered injuries to his face and knee, while the other sergeant suffered only facial injuries. Hyde Street, however, is still closed between Fulton and Grove streets, police said.
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San Francisco Municipal Railway bus and streetcar routes that used Market Street were rerouted around the scene, but have since resumed normal service.
