SAN FRANCISCO—An officer-involved shooting in the Mission District left a robbery suspect dead on February 26.
The conflict began following a request to respond to the intersection of 24th and Folsom Streets. The call, coming in at 9:45 p.m., was in reference to a Hispanic male who was reportedly carrying a knife.
A pair of plainclothes officers arrived on scene, where they discovered the suspect to be chasing a man and brandishing a large knife.
According to the officers, when they demanded the suspect drop his knife, he refused. The conflict then reportedly escalated, leading the suspect, a man in his 20s, t be shot six times.
The suspect, allegedly attempting to steal the bike of the man he was chasing, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Neither the victim nor the San Francisco Police Department officers were injured in the conflict. The two officers involved will be placed on paid administrative leave during a homicide detail investigation of the incident.
The identity of the suspect has not been made public by the coroner’s office.
