One man hospitalized in Tenderloin sidewalk shooting

By Adam Martin, Bay City News Service

March 24, 2006

One man is in custody and another in the hospital today after a sidewalk argument escalated into a shooting in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday.

San Francisco police reported today that they arrested Faustino Perez, 44, of San Francisco after he allegedly shot another man following a sidewalk argument at about 8 p.m. on Golden Gate Avenue near Jones Street.

The man was apparently walking in the opposite direction of Perez, and the two jostled each other when they passed, according to police.

The two men apparently began arguing before Perez allegedly took a gun from his pocket and shot the other man in the chest and thigh, according to police.

Police report that Perez got on an inbound No. 9 San Francisco Municipal Railway bus after the shooting. Officer Brian Michaud, of the Tenderloin station, boarded that bus at Fourth and Market Streets, police report.

When a dispatcher broadcast Perez's description and the fact that he was on a bus headed downtown, Michaud noticed a man fitting the description sitting at the back of the bus.

Perez apparently got up to move to another seat in the bus. A gun he had on him fell to the floor when he moved, police report.

Police took Perez into custody after he initially resisted arrest, they reported. He was charged with attempted murder, possession of a handgun and resisting arrest.

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