San Francisco officers early Friday morning shot and killed an armed man suspected in an earlier injury hit-and-run crash, according to the police department.
At about 1:35 a.m. Friday, officers searching for a hit-and-run driver found the suspect vehicle in the area of Grant Avenue and Post Street, police said. When officers approached the vehicle, one or more of them shot the suspect.
"After an attempt to take the suspect into custody was unsuccessful, the officers were involved in an officer-involved shooting," SFPD Assistant Chief David Lazar said. "The details of that officer-involved shooting are still being figured out. We're still looking at all the evidence."
The suspect was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. During the investigation, a gun was recovered at the scene.
Family members later identified the suspect as Peter Hodge, and police confirmed he was a security guard at the Dior store on Post Street. That's where video shows the storefront riddled with bullets from the shooting.
The sequence of events started at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, when officers responded to the area of Kearny and Post streets after a speeding vehicle drove onto a sidewalk and struck and injured two pedestrians and a bicyclist, police said. The vehicle then fled the scene.
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The pedestrians, a woman and a girl, were taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Officers were unable to locate the bicyclist.
The incident is being investigated by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office; the SFPD Investigative Services Division; the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office; the SFPD Internal Affairs Division; and the Department of Police Accountability (DPA).
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SFPD has asked all witnesses and possible victims involved in the incident to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.
