One person was shot Thursday afternoon on Mission Street near 17th Street. A police officer at the scene said that there had been a “big fight” on the street before shots rang out, and that a suspect was thought to have fled on foot heading east down 18th Street.
Police are still investigating how many suspects may have been involved in the shooting. One officer said it could be one person, or “a group or a couple of people.” No suspects had been apprehended at the time of reporting.
After being shot sometime around 3:00, the victim ran inside the nonprofit organization HOMEY — Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth — at 2221 Mission St. The youth staff there administered first aid.
The victim sought safety inside HOMEY’s headquarters on Mission Street near 17th. Photo by Nicholas David.
Across the street, at Chicken Fried Palace, General Manager Lily Brown said either one or two shots were fired.
HOMEY’s executive director, Roberto Eligio Alfaro, came to the nonprofit’s headquarters shortly after the incident. While he wasn’t present for the shooting itself or its immediate aftermath, he had heard from his staff who were on the scene.
“The youth team kept him alive,” Alfaro said, “until the ambulance came.”
The victim’s condition is unknown at this time.
A neighboring preschool had to close early and send its children home after the shooting. A teacher there described hearing “a loud bang” — luckily, she said, it was during nap time, and the children were far from the building’s Mission Street entrance.
“Everything was safe in here with them,” the teacher said.
Outside HOMEY, Alfaro cast his eyes down and spoke softly as he told Mission Local what he knew. The “young man” who was shot wasn’t directly affiliated with HOMEY, Alfaro said, but “he knew some of the participants in the program.”