Overview
- Officers responded around 2:10 p.m. to a report of a stabbing at a residence on the 900 block of Howard Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood.
- Police found a victim with stab wounds and began CPR as paramedics provided additional lifesaving measures, but the person was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The San Francisco Police Department’s homicide detail is leading the case, and the victim’s identity has not been released.
- The building is near the Sixth Street corridor, an area long associated with open-air drug activity, homelessness, and focused city enforcement and outreach.
- Police asked anyone with information to call the anonymous tip line at 415-575-4444 or text TIP411 beginning the message with “SFPD.”