{"id":31147,"date":"2025-10-31T01:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/31147\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:39:29","slug":"sf-bodega-cat-struck-and-killed-by-waymo-store-owner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/31147\/","title":{"rendered":"SF bodega cat struck and killed by Waymo, store owner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/56B8E37CD7D6A665907778FC514A4605.jpg\" alt=\"Bodega cat struck and killed by Waymo, store owner says\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/1732985\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bodega cat struck and killed by Waymo, store owner says<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">The Mission District community is mourning a bodegas mascot cat who was struck and killed by a Waymo autonomous vehicle on Monday, the stores owner says. KitKat, a gray tabby, was rushed to a veterinarian but did not survive. A sidewalk memorial with flowers and candy is outside Randas Market at 16th Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco<\/a>&#8216;s Mission District is mourning the loss of a beloved Bodega cat after he was allegedly killed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/waymo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Waymo<\/a> autonomous vehicle this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A sidewalk memorial with flowers and candy is now up for &#8216;KitKat&#8217; the gray tabby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">KitKat was the pet mascot of Randa&#8217;s Market on 16th Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The market&#8217;s owner told KTVU that KitKat was struck and killed by the Waymo on Monday. The animal was rushed to the veterinarian but did not make it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The cat&#8217;s owner said he is grateful for all the love and support the community is showing around the loss of KitKat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">KTVU has reached out to Waymo for a statement but has not yet heard back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\/mission\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mission<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/waymo\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waymo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/technology\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodega cat struck and killed by Waymo, store owner says The Mission District community is mourning a bodegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,1556,100,1768,7700,101,103,102,104,106,105,1970,1181,5987],"class_list":{"0":"post-31147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-mission","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-organization","12":"tag-pets-animals","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","15":"tag-san-francisco-news","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-headlines","18":"tag-sf-news","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-waymo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147","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=31147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}