Vigilante attack follows stabbing in the Mission

A stabbing Monday evening in San Francisco left one man bleeding on the sidewalk before a scene of vigilantism played out inside a Mission District restaurant, authorities said.

Around 6:30 p.m., 56-yearold Troy Rush of San Francisco allegedly got into a physical altercation with a 30year-old man near 16th and Mission streets. Rush allegedly stabbed the younger man in the abdomen with a knife before fleeing a few blocks to the Castillito Yucateco restaurant on Mission Street, authorities said.

The restaurant offered little refuge.

Two friends of the younger man chased Rush into the restaurant, and when he “put his hands up” the two men struck him in the head with a baseball bat, said Officer Joseph Tomlinson, a police spokesman.

The pair then ran away from the restaurant and a person on scene called 911, Tomlinson said.

A short time later, Rush was arrested for the earlier altercation. He and the man who suffered a stab wound were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Authorities are pursuing leads to find the two men who attacked Rush.

Police did not immediately know details of the altercation or relationship between Rush, the stabbing victim and the two outstanding suspects, Tomlinson said.