Mayor London Breed weighed in Saturday morning on the San Francisco Mission District shooting that injured nine people Friday evening, saying the incident was still under investigation.
, saying the incident was still under investigation.
"I know there are a lot of questions and concerns in the community, and people want answers," the tweet read."We are still working to understand exactly what happened and why and we will share information as soon as we can." We are still working to understand exactly what happened and why and we will share information as soon as we can.responded to a shooting scene near 24th Street and Treat Avenue shortly after 9 p.m. at a block party
Police later said at around 11:24 p.m. that nine people were injured in what they described as a targeted shooting. While the SFPD Twitter account posted that all the victims were expected to survive their injuries, Deputy Chief Raj Vaswani said there were life-threatening injuries.
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