The Informant

Homeless Man Found Beaten To Death In Golden Gate Park Michael Ponder, 53, was found Saturday morning near Kezar Stadium. (SF Appeal)

Police Say Thieves Invading Underground Vaults More on the city’s copper strippers. (SF Appeal)

Fremont officer critical after 2nd surgery Officer Todd Young was shot and critically wounded while trying to arrest a man in East Oakland. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Death row inmate, 70, found dead at San Quentin George Hatton was found in his cell on Saturday, having hung himself with bed sheets. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Sheriff completes probe of McNears tree vandal The suspect allegedly cut down two eucalyptus trees, opening up views for nearby homes, and violating local ordinances. (Marin Independent Journal)

Four people rescued from boat near Point Reyes by US Coast Guard The sailboat was headed from San Francisco to Alaska when it suffered an electrical failure. (Contra Costa Times)

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Direct from SFPD, we have word that a man was shot and killed in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood just after midnight this morning. He had apparently gotten into a fight with a group of young men, one of whom punched him in the face and shot him multiple times. The suspects fled the scene, ditching the gun in a mailbox on the 500 block of O’Farrell Street. Police recovered the gun soon after, but the suspects are at large.

Also early this morning, a woman woke up in her Bush St. apartment to find a man rifling through her belongings. She yelled and the man fled through the window, apparently joining a group of friends on the street. No arrests have been made. From around the web, we have more news:

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