Police Shooting at 8th and Market

One person was killed in an officer-involved shooting along San Francisco Market Street Thursday.

The incident occurred about noon Thursday adjacent to a busy stretch of Market Street just outside the Civic Center BART and Muni stations and a half-block from San Francisco’s Main Library.

According to the newspaper, Suhr said the man and the sergeants engaged in an altercation and that the man grabbed one sergeant’s gun. Suhr said he was a Hispanic man in his 20s. He’s got my gun. Two casings were found on the ground, and it’s believed that two shots were fired. Both were senior officers, Suhr said.

“At that point the officer screamed, ‘He’s getting my gun, he’s got my gun, shoot him, ‘” to the other sergeant, Suhr said. The unidentified man, described by Suhr as in his late 20s, died at the scene. The NBC Bay Area chopper flew over the scene and spotted a body under a tarp on the sidewalk. Both sergeants were treated at a local hospital for facial injuries. It’s unknown if there were any other injuries in the shooting.

A van from the San Francisco medical examiner’s office responded to the intersection at about 1 p.m. The medical examiner’s office has not yet released the name of the man. Hyde Street is closed between Fulton and Grove streets, police said.

San Francisco Municipal Railway buses and streetcars on Market Street are being rerouted around the scene, according to Muni officials, who advised riders to take Muni Metro subway service as an alternative.