A man who shot and wounded a security guard at a San Francisco supermarket in 2022 has been convicted of multiple crimes and sentenced to more than 30 years in prison, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Andre Brown, 52, entered the Safeway store in the 4900 block of Mission Street just before 6 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2022, and took several items without paying for them. A security guard followed Brown out of the store and once they were on the sidewalk, Brown fired two shots at the security guard, hitting the victim in the groin, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said.
Brown fled the scene but was arrested minutes later on a bus, prosecutors said.
He was convicted of second-degree robbery and assault with a semi-automatic weapon, along with multiple charges of being a felon in possession of a weapon. A San Francisco Superior Court jury also found that he caused serious bodily harm to the victim, that he was out on bond and that he intentionally discharged his firearm.
Due to California’s three-strikes law and Brown already had two strikes, he was sentenced to 31 years to life in state prison.
