{"id":140033,"date":"2026-01-19T12:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140033\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:43:17","slug":"s-f-police-investigating-tenderloin-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140033\/","title":{"rendered":"S.F. police investigating Tenderloin homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man assaulted last week in San Francisco&#8217;s Tenderloin neighborhood has died from his injuries, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The San Francisco Police Department launched a homicide investigation after the victim succumbed to his injuries Saturday at the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The alleged assault happened around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 11 on the 300 block of Ellis Street, police said. The victim was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arrested Willie Smith, 33, of San Rafael, on suspicion of aggravated assault and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department&#8217;s homicide detail is now leading the investigation, which remains open and active although an arrest has been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/police-investigating-tenderloin-homicide-21302557.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:S.F. police investigating Tenderloin homicide;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">S.F. police investigating Tenderloin homicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man assaulted last week in San Francisco&#8217;s Tenderloin neighborhood has died from his injuries, authorities said Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6600,101,103,102,104,106,105,70817,70818],"class_list":["post-140033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-homicide-investigation","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tenderloin-neighborhood","tag-willie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}