EXCLUSIVE: Shots fired in daytime carjacking attempt at San Francisco shopping plaza

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Surprising video coming to mild reveals the moments a gun is drawn and photographs fired in an tried carjacking at a well-liked, family-friendly purchasing plaza in San Francisco. Video of the incident shocked buyers within the Anza Vista neighborhood the place it occurred.

“We all the time see kids right here, pets, it is household pleasant. It is insane to see one thing like that!” Gasped a lady holding her pet bulldog named Tank. She and her husband had been on their solution to a pet provide retailer within the purchasing plaza.

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The purchasing heart alongside Geary Boulevard is residence to all kinds of shops, eateries, even a coronavirus vaccine clinic. By no means, in one million years, did buyers we spoke with Friday count on to see this.

“I simply received my COVID booster, that is why I am right here,” says one man with headphones on. He continued to say, after we confirmed him the video, how he was “actually stunned to listen to about it for the primary time proper now.”

Video used within the police investigation reveals two males method a driver in a blue Honda sedan. One, armed with a gun, fires off a shot. San Francisco police confirmed the incident occurred at round 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30.

“It undoubtedly seems like a protected space! There’ve been a number of automobile break-ins however that is it,” says one man, wearing hospital scrubs from a close-by medical facility.

In a second video that we’re solely in a position to present a screenshot of, you hear the suspect hearth a number of rounds on the Honda.

We observed on the pavement, even every week later the places the place police marked the shell casings, had been nonetheless drawn out in chalk. In whole, we counted 10.

It was arduous for some to wrap their heads round what occurred right here.

“It is simply loopy it occurred right here the place we now have lunch at, and chill and eat. It is loopy.” Stated a person, additionally in hospital scrubs, holding a half-eaten burrito.

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These we spoke with mentioned they don’t have any alternative however to maintain purchasing right here. They’re going to simply be armed with a brand new sense of consciousness.

“It seems so protected but it surely makes you assume one thing might go incorrect within the blink of a watch,” says the girl with the bulldog. She’s grateful her husband was accompanying her.

The sufferer within the Honda was in a position to escape. No arrests have been made and SFPD asks anybody with data to return ahead by calling 415-575-444 or texting TIP411. All calls and texts will stay nameless.

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