{"id":488984,"date":"2026-10-08T08:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488984\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:04:34","slug":"warfield-shooting-woman-arrested-in-guards-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488984\/","title":{"rendered":"Warfield shooting: Woman arrested in guard\u2019s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791446674_175_snzyp1bvfcc9pwm8.jpg\" alt=\"Man shot dead at SF's Warfield Theatre was security guard\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791446674_175_snzyp1bvfcc9pwm8.jpg\" alt=\"Man shot dead at SF's Warfield Theatre was security guard\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-766fb86c=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; San Francisco police arrested a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/san-francisco-warfield-security-guard-killed-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">woman on suspicion of murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard<\/a> outside the Warfield Theatre.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Shakia Vanderbilt, 32, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the killing of Ulysses Davis, police said.<\/p>\n<p> Security guard killed outside Warfield  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Davis, 47, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/sfpd-investigating-fatal-shooting-union-square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">working security at the theater<\/a> after an event for the reality TV show &#8220;Baddies&#8221; ended around midnight Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Davis, known to friends and family as &#8220;Bear,&#8221; was helping escort a &#8220;rowdy&#8221; woman from the theater near Market and Taylor streets at about 1 a.m. when the woman allegedly shot him in the back, according to Terrance Cooper, Davis\u2019 brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Davis\u2019 wife and two of his six children witnessed the shooting, Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Davis grew up in San Francisco\u2019s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood and was always willing to help those around him, loved ones said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">&#8220;Bear would give you the shirt off his back,&#8221; Cooper said. &#8220;If you ever called him and you needed him, he was always there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Police investigate event permits <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Police have not released details about what led to the shooting. They are also investigating whether the venue had the proper permits for the event, said San Francisco police spokesman Robert Rueca.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">&#8220;We understand that there was an event that was occurring,&#8221; Rueca said. &#8220;Part of our investigation is to make sure that business was allowed to hold that event, if they do have the proper permits and were operating it according to the permit restrictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Lemmuel Plummer, CEO of Zeus Network, which produces &#8220;Baddies,&#8221; has not responded to a request for comment. The Warfield also has not responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story is based on information from an Oct. 7, 2026, news conference held by San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and local police, along with jail records and previous interviews with Ulysses Davis\u2019 family.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; San Francisco police arrested a woman on suspicion of murder in the fatal shooting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,2042,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-488984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488984","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=488984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}