For the record. I knew this man Francisco "Poncho" Pena and his family. This is not my business. Just tired of people dying over nothing. R.I.P
Mission district shootings ignite gang-free zone
By: TAMARA BARAK APARTON and BRENT BEGIN
San Francisco Examiner
September 22, 2009
Violent weekend: Police investigate the scene of a triple shooting on 24th Street on Sunday. (Cindy Chew/The Examiner)
SAN FRANCISCO — Homicides in an area of the Mission district designated by authorities as a gang-free zone went from zero during a span of almost 10 months to three in just three days this weekend.
Francisco Pena, 41, of San Francisco, and Francisco Cornejo, 26, of unknown residence, died in a gang-related shooting inside a 24th Street pizzeria late Sunday afternoon. A third man suffered life-threatening injuries, San Francisco police Sgt. Lyn Tomioka said.
“We had officers there within a minute,” said Capt. Stephen Tacchini, who commands Mission Police Station. “We couldn’t resuscitate the victims, but we were able to make a quick arrest.”
San Francisco residents Andres Siorda, 19, and a 16-year-old youth were arrested at a nearby home 10 minutes after the shooting, police said.
The owner of Papa Potrero’s Pizza, where the shootings happened, would not comment for fear of retaliation, but police already have footage of the entire incident from at least five different cameras inside and outside the business.