{"id":58450,"date":"2025-11-18T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58450\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:29:15","slug":"public-tips-help-id-san-francisco-man-found-dead-on-soma-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58450\/","title":{"rendered":"Public tips help ID San Francisco man found dead on SoMa sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco officials say public tips helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.gov\/office-of-the-chief-medical-examiner-seeks-the-publics-help-to-identify-decedent-november-14-2025\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">identify a man<\/a>\u00a0whose death last week in the South of Market neighborhood prompted a citywide appeal for information.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said that within moments of a press notice being published, multiple leads came in that led to a positive identification.<\/p>\n<p>The decedent, previously listed as John Doe #243, has been identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cameron-knutson-ab6b9b183\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Cameron Charles Knutson<\/a>, 37, of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEqually important, we were able to locate and notify his legal next of kin,\u201d officials said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Knutson was found Nov. 14 in front of 131 10th St., between Howard and Mission Streets. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene. The cause and manner of death remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>He was initially described as a white man, about 30 years old, with red hair, blue eyes and \u201cdistinctive facial freckles.\u201d A police sketch artist created a drawing of Knutson in hopes that someone would recognize him.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner\u2019s office said it routinely identifies decedents within 24 hours through fingerprints, identification cards, DNA testing and witness interviews. But in this \u201crare case,\u201d those efforts failed to produce a match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco officials say public tips helped identify a man\u00a0whose death last week in the South of Market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,7,723,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-58450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58450","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=58450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}