SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A 27-year-old woman in a stolen car who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being shot by San Francisco police has died, according to authorities.
The shooting happened Thursday at around 9:45 a.m. near the corner of Industrial Street and Shafter Avenue in the city’s Bayview District, authorities said.
Two officers were patrolling the area looking for stolen cars and spotted the stolen vehicle on Elmira Street near Helena Street. The woman drove away but crashed into a truck less than 100 feet away, Suhr said.
The officers tried to pull the woman out, and at some point a sergeant fired one shot, striking her, according to Suhr.
A witness told police the woman was moving the car back and forth while officers tried to pull her out. Suhr said it was not yet clear if she was armed or threatening officers.
Officers performed CPR on the woman and took her to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her name is not yet being released.
During a press conference on neighborhood clean up, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said he was upset about the shooting. This is city’s second fatal officer-involved shooting this year.
In 2015, there were six fatal officer-involved shootings, including the shooting death of Mario Woods in Bay View on Dec. 2.
The Woods shooting ignited a heated debate over the police department’s excessive force.
Martin Halloran, President of the San Francisco Police Officers’ Association, has issued the following statement on the shooting:
I have received multiple requests from the media to discuss the shooting in the Bayview today. Because neither of the police officers involved have even been interviewed yet, it would be premature to comment on what happened or didn’t happen. The facts are still unclear. Until I learn more of the facts, I am not going to reach any conclusion. I will provide a statement when the details of this tragic incident are made known to me.
Suhr on Thursday called the shooting “tragic.” “This is exactly the type of thing that we, with all of our
“This is exactly the type of thing that we, with all of our reforms, are trying to avoid,” he said, noting that the department did not want any contacts with police to end in an officer-involved shootings.
In addition to the Police Department, the district attorney’s office is investigating today’s shooting. Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice also responded to the shooting scene this morning, according to Suhr.
Just after sunset on Thursday, more than 100 people returned to the site of the shooting to pay their respects and mourn the loss of life.