San Francisco is seeing a rapid uptick in its homicide count so far in 2026, following a year with a historically low count. The latest killing occurred in the Tenderloin.<\/p>\n
A male victim was found with a fatal gunshot wound Wednesday morning on Turk Street, near the entrance of Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, a few doors in from Taylor Street. As Mission Local reports<\/a>, police responded to the scene just before 9 am, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene, after life-saving measures were attempted.<\/p>\n The victim has not yet been publicly identified. But police have made an arrest.<\/p>\n 37-year-old Sefanaia Alatini of Oakland was reportedly arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n The circumstances of the shooting have not been reported.<\/p>\n This is the second shooting in several days in San Francisco. A man was found fatally shot in the Rincon Hill area<\/a>, near the Bay Bridge on-ramp, early Monday, in the hours after the Super Bowl. The Chronicle subsequently reported<\/a> that the victim has been identified as 31-year-old Keonte Antonio Deshawn Woods, a rapper who resided in Solano County and who had a local presence in Richmond, rapping under the name Curnal.<\/p>\n With Wednesday’s shooting in the Tenderloin, the city has now seen six homicides this year to date, during a period when, in 2025, we only had one homicide.<\/p>\n