No officers or bystanders were struck.
A police vehicle enters the parking lot at the Mission Police Station San Francisco Police Department's Mission Police Station on Valencia Street in San Francisco, Calif. on July 26, 2022. Pedestrian barriers line the sidewalk outside the police station.police officers were shot at while confronting three suspected catalytic converter thieves near the Richmond District, the department confirmed.
Around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, officers were dispatched near California Street and 9th Avenue after receiving reports of a catalytic converter theft in progress. After getting word that three unidentified men got into their car and fled the scene, officers caught up to them about a mile away near McAllister Street and Arguello Boulevard, a San Francisco police spokesperson said in a statement to SFGATE. The three men then got out of the vehicle and ran away on foot, according to the statement.
During the pursuit, SFPD said, one of the men shot at the officers but missed. “No officers or bystanders were struck by gunfire, and no officers returned fire at the suspects,” the department spokepserson added.
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