San Francisco police officers shot dead a man armed with a knife in the early hours of Thursday morning before discovering the body of a woman and a dead dog inside a home. The suspect was later pronounced dead at hospital, police said.
Officers went to a home on 31st Avenue off Balboa Street in the Richmond District of San Francisco where they found an 84-year-old man standing in the doorway. A 37-year-old man armed with a knife then approached officers, who opened fire, police said in a press release Thursday morning.
When officers entered the home, they found the body of a 76-year-old woman and a dead dog. Paramedics took the 84-year-old man, who had unspecified non-life-threatening injuries, to a hospital, police said.
Police say the suspect is the victim’s son, who suffered from a mental illness and lived at home with his mother, father and family dog.
Police tape surrounds the site of a police shooting Thursday in the Richmond borough. | Ida Mojadad/The Standard
The filming location is near the Balboa Street trade corridor, a few blocks north of Golden Gate Park and near George Washington High School.
Police tape surrounds the site of a police shooting Thursday in the Richmond borough. | Ida Mojadad/The Standard
Warden Connie Chan, who represents the area on the oversight panel, issued a statement saying she was in close contact with police about the shooting and said the incident was tragic.
“When one household is injured, our entire community is affected,” Chan said. “My heart and thoughts are with the family.”
Thursday’s shooting marks the second time this year that police have shot and killed someone in the city. On May 19, SFPD officer Gregory Buhagiar shot and killed 40-year-old Sergio Barrios as Barrios was reaching for a pistol in Bernal Heights.
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