Victims in two city fatal shootings IDd

Two men killed in separate, backtoback shootings in San Francisco Friday evening were identified as 33yearold Anthony Atchan and 49yearold Sichards Malone, officials with the medical examiner’s office said Monday.

Both victims were San Francisco residents.

Atchan was one of four people struck in a hail of gunfire just before 8: 30 p. m. near the Sunnydale neighborhood. Police from the Ingleside district responded to the 200 block of Schwerin Street and found Atchan and three other people suffering from gunshot wounds.

Atchan died at the scene. The three others — a 46yearold man, a 34yearold woman and a 63yearold woman — were taken to the hospital and are expected to survive their injuries, police said.

Malone was gunned down about a half hour earlier, 3 miles away near Hunters Point Boulevard and Innes Avenue.

There have been no arrests in either case, and there is no known description of any suspects or suspect vehicles.

The Friday night gunfire is the latest in what has been an alarming and deadly rise in shootings, both in San Francisco and across the Bay.

As of Monday, San Francisco clocked 41 homicides for 2020, compared to 31 at this time last year. Shotspotter, the gunfiredetection service, recorded a 32% jump in San Francisco shootings in its coverage areas during the first seven months of the year.

Oakland police have counted

80 homicides in the city this year as of Monday, a 38% increase from the 58 slayings seen during the same time in 2019. There were five shootings over the weekend in Oakland, according to police union officials, including two that were deadly and one that wounded a 13yearold girl.

The increase in homicides in both cities comes after years of historically low levels of violence. San Francisco ended 2019 with 41 killings, a 56year low. Oakland recorded 68 killings in all of 2018, the lowest figure since 1999. The city posted an uptick of 75 slayings in 2019.