Suspect arrested after shooting near San Francisco Pride, officer injured
A suspect was arrested after a daytime shooting near United Nations Plaza during Pride, leaving one person and an officer with non-life-threatening injuries.
A suspect was taken into custody after a shooting near United Nations Plaza in Civic Center sent one person and one San Francisco police officer to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries during the city’s Pride weekend.
San Francisco police said officers were already in the area monitoring Pride events when they found a person suffering from a gunshot wound around 3:30 p.m. Saturday near the event entrance. Officers rendered aid until paramedics arrived, then identified a suspect matching the victim’s description. A brief foot chase followed, and police arrested the suspect.
The wounded person was hospitalized with injuries that were not considered life-threatening and was expected to recover. The officer injured during the pursuit was also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, adding another layer of strain to a weekend already marked by heavy police attention around Civic Center.
The shooting landed in the middle of the 56th annual San Francisco Pride weekend, whose theme this year is Resistance in Action. It came after police said five people were arrested and two officers were injured in a separate incident during the Trans March. Police had said they would keep a public-safety presence throughout the weekend as crowds moved through the area.
The violence also revived memories of an earlier Pride-era shooting near the same stretch of downtown. In 2015, a shooting near United Nations Plaza during Pride left a bystander hospitalized, underscoring how quickly celebration in the Civic Center district can give way to fear when gunfire breaks out in a dense event corridor.
For Pride organizers, city leaders and police, the latest shooting is likely to sharpen questions about crowd control, officer deployment and how to secure large gatherings that spill across United Nations Plaza and the surrounding blocks. Saturday’s incident unfolded in broad daylight, near one of the festival’s most visible gathering points, and ended with a suspect in custody, two people injured and a weekend of celebration shadowed by another public-safety scare.
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