* San Francisco officer shoots man with a less-than-lethal weapon
Published by Staff Reporter on January 4, 2011
A San Francisco police officer shot a man with a less-than-lethal weapon after being stabbed in the city’s South of Market District this morning, a police spokesman said. The shooting happened at about 10:15 a.m. after officers responded to a report of a man vandalizing city vehicles in front of the San Francisco Community Behavioral Health Services building near 10th and Howard streets, San Francisco police Officer Eric Chiang said. Chiang said the man stabbed one of the officers, who then shot the man with a less-than-lethal weapon an unknown number of times. Both the officer and the suspect have been taken to a hospital, Chiang said. He did not have information on the severity of their injuries. An employee at the Community Behavioral Health Services building who did not want to be named said she was told by other employees at the office that the man shot was in a wheelchair. Tom Cebollero, owner of Metric Motors at 10th and Howard streets, said he witnessed the chaos that followed the shooting. ”I was outside feeding the meter. I heard a gunshot and then I heard sirens,” Cebollero said. “Tenth Street is blocked off. They’re setting up a command center. It’s a crazy situation.”
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