{"id":238547,"date":"2026-03-27T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:52:07","slug":"sf-state-graduate-22-identified-as-victim-in-sunset-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238547\/","title":{"rendered":"SF State graduate, 22, identified as victim in Sunset shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">A recent graduate of San Francisco State University has been identified as the woman who was shot and killed Tuesday night in the Sunset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">The San Francisco Police Department said officers responded to a shooting in the 2200 block of 22nd Avenue at about 10:43 p.m. and found a woman who had been shot. She was transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">The office of the chief medical examiner identified the victim Thursday as Samantha Emge, 22, a San Francisco resident and 2025 graduate of SF State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">\u201cSan Francisco State University extends its deepest condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved her during this profoundly difficult time,\u201d Dave Knutson, a spokesperson for the school, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">Nation Wood, 25, was arrested in connection with the killing and booked on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter early Wednesday, according to online jail records. Police have provided no additional details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">Knutson confirmed that Wood also graduated from the university in 2025. A friend of Emge told The Standard that Wood was her boyfriend. Emge\u2019s Instagram profile includes several pictures featuring the couple since early 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">According to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/samantha-emge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn profile (opens in new tab)<\/a>, Emge worked as a design assistant at Chantal Lamberto Interior Design in Presidio Heights. The firm did not respond to a request for comment. A family member declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">On his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nation-wood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn profile (opens in new tab)<\/a>, Wood describes himself as an \u201cindependent pre-event site security adviser\u201d who does assessments for \u201cevents with VIP attendance.\u201d His profile says he had worked on the White House\u2019s advance team and has experience with the U.S. Secret Service. A White House spokesperson confirmed that Wood was employed as part of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">Reached by phone, Wood\u2019s father, Michael Wood, said he had no comment on \u201cthis horrible, horrific tragedy\u201d before hanging up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent graduate of San Francisco State University has been identified as the woman who was shot and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8528,134,101,103,102,104,106,105,27669],"class_list":["post-238547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-homicide","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sunset-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238547","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=238547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}