SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – California officials are investigating last week's police shooting in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, indicating that officers might have shot and killed at least one unarmed man.
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State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday that his office will investigate the shooting under a law that, after going into effect nearly a year ago, requires the California Department of Justice to investigate police shootings of unarmed civilians.
The San Francisco Police Department said last Friday that two men died after at least one officer fired their gun at the intersection of Mariposa and Owens streets on Thursday night. Officials didn't say whether the men were killed by police, nor if the men sustained gunshot wounds.
State officials said Monday they were treating the shooting as one that qualifies for an Assembly Bill 1506 investigation amid the "uncertainty" of the shooting. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law in September 2020, and it went into effect last July 1.
San Francisco police officials on Friday morning said that officers responded to an aggravated assault in progress at 7:48 p.m. the previous night. Once the officers reached Mariposa and Owens, they found two men.
After at least one officer fired their weapon, one of the men was pronounced dead at the scene. Another was transported to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where he died of "life-threatening injuries."
Police didn't say what those injuries were, nor did they say which of the men were shot. In response to KCBS Radio's emailed request for comment, a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson said the shooting is under an "open and ongoing" state investigation that precludes the department "from disclosing further details" of the shooting.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner responded to KCBS Radio's request for comment on Monday afternoon prior to publication.
San Francisco police officials said the department will hold a town hall within 10 days of the shooting. The department hosted its last such meeting in February after officers in January shot and killed a man at San Francisco International Airport whom officials said told police was carrying a loaded gun. Police later said he was armed with airsoft guns.
The California Department of Justice is also investigating that shooting.
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