{"id":171995,"date":"2026-02-10T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/171995\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:45:11","slug":"keion-white-becomes-second-49ers-player-shot-in-san-francisco-in-18-months-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/171995\/","title":{"rendered":"Keion White becomes second 49ers player shot in San Francisco in 18 months | NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Keion White, a defensive lineman for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/san-francisco-49ers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, has undergone surgery after he was shot in the ankle early on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The shooting happened in San Francisco hours after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/super-bowl-lx-seahawks-patriots\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of the Super Bowl<\/a>, which was played at Levi\u2019s Stadium in nearby Santa Clara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cKeion White was a victim of a shooting and sustained a bullet wound to his ankle this morning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/san-francisco\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a>,\u201d the team said in a statement. \u201cHe is currently undergoing surgery at a local hospital. We will provide further updates when appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">San Francisco police said they responded to a shooting shortly after 4am and found a victim from an apparent gunshot wound. Officers gave aid and called paramedics. The victim was taken to a local hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cA preliminary investigation revealed a verbal altercation occurred between two groups inside a business,\u201d police said in a statement. \u201cThe victim was injured when shots were fired by an unknown suspect. All information is preliminary at this time, and more information will be provided as it becomes available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">White joined the 49ers midway through this season after a trade from New England. White\u2019s old team, the Patriots, lost the Super Bowl on Sunday night to the Seattle Seahawks. The 27-year-old White has just finished his third season in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/nfl\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">This is the second time in the past 18 months that a 49ers\u2019 player has been a victim of a shooting in San Francisco. Receiver Ricky Pearsall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/aug\/31\/ricky-pearsall-shot-robbery-san-francisco-49ers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was shot in the chest<\/a> during a robbery attempt in August 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/ricky-pearsall-shooting-san-francisco-49ers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A teenager is awaiting trial<\/a> in juvenile court in that case. Pearsall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.49ers.com\/news\/wr-ricky-pearsall-completes-comeback-from-nfi-list-makes-nfl-debut-in-week-7\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned to play<\/a> for the 49ers less than two months after the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keion White, a defensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers, has undergone surgery after he was shot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-171995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171995","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=171995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}