Two men wounded in Mission Bay shooting, police investigate

Two men were wounded on the 600 block of Mission Bay Boulevard late Tuesday night, drawing San Francisco police and fire crews into a part of Mission Bay that many residents, workers and patients experience as tightly managed and low-risk. The San Francisco Fire Department transported the men to a trauma center, and police said both suffered injuries that were not life-threatening.

San Francisco police said officers responded around 9:10 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, 2026, to a report of a shooting in the 600 block of Mission Bay Boulevard. When officers arrived, they found two male victims with apparent gunshot wounds. Officials described the injuries as “penetrating wounds,” and police said the men were taken to a local hospital.

Investigators said a verbal altercation happened before the suspect fired a gun and fled the scene. No arrests had been made, and police asked anyone with information to call the San Francisco Police Department at (415) 575-4444 or text a tip to Tip411 with the message “SFPD.”

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management told people to avoid Mission Bay Boulevard between Merrimac and 4th streets while emergency crews worked the scene. That stretch sits in the heart of a neighborhood shaped by UCSF Mission Bay, nearby housing towers, commuter traffic and major destinations that bring steady foot traffic to the waterfront.

Mission Bay was built on former rail-yard land and has been transformed into a 303-acre, high-density, mixed-use district. City planning materials place it in the Central Waterfront and designate it as two redevelopment project areas, Mission Bay North and Mission Bay South. The area now holds a mix of institutional and corporate uses, which makes a shooting there especially visible to people moving between the UCSF campus, nearby residences and the surrounding streets.

The violence also landed in a neighborhood that many San Franciscans associate with new development, wide streets and heavy day-to-day oversight rather than the kind of street crime that can feel more expected in other parts of the city. For the people who live, work or travel through Mission Bay, Tuesday night’s police response disrupted that sense of separation and put a small block of the waterfront district under an emergency perimeter.