{"id":175468,"date":"2026-02-12T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:30:25","slug":"tenderloin-shooting-second-s-f-homicide-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175468\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenderloin shooting second S.F. homicide in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed in a broad daylight shooting near Turk and Taylor streets on Wednesday morning, according to the San Francisco police department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to Turk Street just before 9 a.m. and attempted to resuscitate the victim, who was declared dead at the scene. Video uploaded to Citizen showed a body on the sidewalk covered with a tarp, near the entrance to Aunt Charlie\u2019s Lounge.<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday afternoon, police had arrested Sefanaia Alatini, a 37-year-old Oakland resident, for murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Information for Alatini is not available in jail booking records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim has not yet been identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two days prior, on Feb. 9, an East Bay rapper was fatally shot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/rincon-hill-shooting-victim-id-21347845.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rincon Hill<\/a> neighborhood after the Super Bowl, and on Jan. 30 a juvenile girl was also fatally killed in a triple shooting near Jefferson Square Park. San Francisco saw its lowest homicide rate in 70 years in 2025, with 28 killings through the entire year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This remains an open and active investigation. Anyone with information should contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD. You may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/elenib\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Smiling person with curly blonde and black hair, wearing a black sleeveless top, standing outdoors with trees and a clear sky in the background.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-eleni4-edit-scaled-1.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eleni is a staff reporter at Mission Local with a focus on criminal justice and all things Tenderloin. She graduated from Rice University and later began her journalism career at City College of San Francisco, where she was formerly editor-in-chief of The Guardsman newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/elenib\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Eleni Balakrishnan\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed in a broad daylight shooting near Turk and Taylor streets on Wednesday morning, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[723,101,103,102,104,106,105,15774],"class_list":{"0":"post-175468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news","15":"tag-shootings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175468","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=175468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}