Mission Mission

Mission Local was on the scene:

Three men were shot just before 11 p.m. on Friday night, following a brief shouting match at 16th and Mission streets. All three victims were transported by ambulance to the hospital, and two, ages 24 and 42, have life-threatening injuries.The third man, 34, is in better condition.

Police have no suspects in custody and no known suspect information yet.

Josh Gonia, who watched the scene from outside El Capitan Hotel on Mission Street, saw the confrontation build up to the round of gunshots.

According to Gonia, two men were outside of the McDonald’s on Mission Street, yelling at another two men across the street at the bus stop. One man ran after another with a baseball bat.

Read on.

[via CMoore]

Here’s the video:

I mean, he kinda gets busted.

[via JWZ]

MM reader Phil created this handy infographic to demonstrate the number of reported bike thefts during a four-month period in neighborhoods in the Bay Area, a much to our shock and surprise (j/k), the Mission ranked in at number one!  At least now you know exactly where you shouldn’t leave your bicycle.  Honorable mention for Emeryville.

Find the bigger versions of the charts as well as detailed explanation of methodology here.

From Missed Connections:

Needed: witnesses to a gay bashing outside of Taqueria Cancun (mission district)
Date: 2011-10-20, 10:39AM PDT

Did you witness a gay bashing outside of Taqueria Cancun (the one at 19th and Mission) Friday night? Eight men jumped out of a truck and attacked four, severely wounding one (continuing to stomp on his head as he was unconscious). This is a felony hate crime, and we need your support in prosecuting the perpetrators. Please step forward and contact me, because adding witnesses who are not victims help the case, and I’m sure if this happened to you, you would hope people would help, rather than just stand by, watch, and be glad it’s not them getting the beating. Thank you, and please contact anyone you think might have been in the area at that time and ask them. Much appreciated!

it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
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A little vignette courtesy of a Tumblrer named Lissy:

[A cafe in the Mission district. Someone steals an iPad out of a fellow cafe-goer's messenger bag and runs.]

• Mark: Wow. What just happened?
• me: Oh my God… I should have stopped him.

(hugging our laptops closer. a gray-haired grandpa walks past us. we eye him suspiciously)

• me: (glancing back) I’m so paranoid now.
• Mark: Maybe we should switch cafes….

See the little punchline here. And for goodness’ sake keep an eye on your gear.

[Photo by Honey Jets]

It was small, but right up against a wall, could’ve gotten bigger. The gang stumbled away laughing:

Luckily, a good samaritan loped across 22nd Street in no time and stamped it out:

Vic totally killed it with his shot of the bomb-bot (flawed though the bomb-bot may be), but I stand by my flare-heavy RAZR pics here.

Oooh, here’s a new fact! This shot of an SF Community College District Police car might mean this all had something to do with the Mission branch of CCSF:

(I checked Twitter also, and mind you this is all five hours after the fact — I had to watch two hours of Breaking Bad and then go to Slow Jams, yo — but still nobody seems to know what exactly went down. Maybe we’ll call SFPD Media Relations in the morning.)

For the time being, Valencia is closed between 21st and 23rd, so be sure to tell your cab driver to take an alternate route.

Previously:

• Bomb scare on 22nd and Valencia

Bomb scare at City College on 22nd and Valencia. I assume there’s no bomb since this cop is walking away from the scene with the bomb-bot.

More details as we find out.

Now with more gender-specific curses than ever before!

(Thanks Christian!)