{"id":193556,"date":"2026-02-25T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:03:10","slug":"security-guard-charged-with-murder-appears-in-san-francisco-court-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193556\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard charged with murder appears in San Francisco court \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old security guard has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/security-guard-san-francisco-tenderloin-murder\/4042384\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged with murder<\/a> in San Francisco, but the defense in the case is claiming it was self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, the judge heard arguments about whether or not the accused, Sefanaia Alatini, should remain in detention after killing someone during an argument at a parking lot in the city&#8217;s Tenderloin neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argue he is a convicted felon who poses a public safety risk.<\/p>\n<p>The defense Wednesday morning offered insight into the shooting, saying Alatini was acting in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Public defenders made the case that the accused is a beloved member of his community and has specific medical needs that require attention outside of county jail.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors on Tuesday argued that Alatini should be held without bail based on a prior conviction from 2013 in Hawaii, which is reflected in an additional count charge against him.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Ginger Conejero Saab has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old security guard has been charged with murder in San Francisco, but the defense in the case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-193556","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\/193556","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=193556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}