Police in San Francisco early Friday morning near Union Square shot and killed a man wanted for hitting two pedestrians and a cyclist with a vehicle hours earlier.
The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Friday when officers located the suspect’s vehicle in the area of ​​Grant Avenue and Post Street.
San Francisco police said officers responded about a block away near Post Street and Kearny Street Thursday evening around 6:30 p.m. after a vehicle drove onto the sidewalk at a high rate of speed and struck two pedestrians. The vehicle rear-ended a cyclist, who was struck in the area of ​​Kearny and Sutter streets.
The vehicle then fled the area.
Officers treated the pedestrians, a woman and a girl, before medics arrived. They were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
According to police, officers were unable to find the cyclist.
After officers located the vehicle in the same area hours later, they established a perimeter and coordinated a plan to safely approach the vehicle. Police said the driver was armed and during the encounter with the driver, officers shot him. A firearm was found at the scene, police said.
Officers rendered aid to the suspect and paramedics took him to a hospital where he died from his injuries.
Police said the fatal shooting was also being investigated by the State Attorney’s Office, the criminal investigation and internal affairs divisions of the police department, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Department of Police Accountability.
Additional information would be released as it became available and all information was preliminary and subject to change, police said.
The department said a town hall meeting on the fatal shooting will take place within 10 days.
Any witnesses and/or additional victims were asked to call police at 415-575-4444 or text TIP411 and start the message with SFPD.
