Good thing I moved.

This happened less than two blocks from Alamo Square, for those of you who know where that is. Also 5 blocks from where I used to live.

7 injured as feud rages in the Western Addition
Housing complex's residents terrified -- 2 attacks in 12 hours

A feud between groups from two Western Addition housing developments, which flared Tuesday when a 19-year-old man was shot in the foot, exploded Wednesday and Thursday as packs of gunmen wounded seven people in a pair of brazen shootings, San Francisco police said.
Police said they were increasing patrols near both housing developments -- the privately owned Friendship Village Apartments and the city's Yerba Buena Plaza East, just five blocks away -- in response to shootings at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and 8:50 a.m. Thursday that deeply frightened residents.
The latest two shootings happened at Friendship Village, a three-story complex of wood shingles on Friendship Court, where police said young men and teens are battling rivals from Plaza East, a collection of newer townhouses centered at Eddy and Buchanan streets. That's where the 19-year-old man was shot Tuesday.
"We're making headway" on identifying the shooters, Police Chief Heather Fong said Thursday afternoon at City Hall, after emerging from closed-door meetings with Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, whose district includes the crime scenes.
Fong said officers would be stationed outside the housing developments 24 hours a day until investigators from the city's gang task force decide the situation has cooled down. Leaflets will be passed out, she said, asking residents to give information that could help solve the cases.
Police also will be keeping an eye on the Juneteenth festival on Fillmore Street this Saturday and Sunday, which celebrates African American history and culture.
Mirkarimi, who went to Friendship Court after each shooting, said he was angry that the second attack was not averted. He said he spoke with Fong by telephone at 12:30 a.m. Thursday, after the first shooting, and that she had promised him that officers would be stationed there.
"The fact is, it didn't happen," Mirkarimi said.
Capt. Kevin Dillon, who heads the Northern Police Station, said he took responsibility for officers not being posted at the location at the time of the second shooting. "There was a communication breakdown," he said. "It's being addressed."
In the first shooting, police said, seven assailants attacked a group of people on the 1100 block of McAllister Street, at the end of Friendship Court. One victim was driven to Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center and three others, including a bystander, were taken to San Francisco General Hospital. None had life-threatening wounds, said Sgt. Neville Gittens, a police spokesman.
Jason Steinberg, a 32-year-old photographer, said he was the bystander. He said he was walking toward his apartment on Fulton Street, a block away from the shooting, when he was knocked to the ground. He initially thought he had been hit by a bottle rocket, but soon realized a bullet had blasted through a metal gate and struck him in the left thigh, leaving him with a deep bruise.
"I'm looking to move out immediately," he said.
The second shooting happened near a playground, a central management office and a laundry room along Friendship Court, which bisects the apartment complex. Police said three or four suspects on foot attacked a group, wounding a 16-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys. One of the victims had life-threatening injuries, Gittens said.
The shootings left nearby cars and homes scarred by bullet holes. Yellow chalk circles on the pavement, which typically indicate where a bullet casing has been found, were scattered over a wide area, as if the victims of the second shooting had been chased.
"I dove to the floor both times," said Virginia Womach, a 58-year-old woman who lives in Friendship Village. "I couldn't count how many shots there were."
Womach said violence had been a factor when she recently made plans to move away, after nearly 30 years in the complex. She said she and her boyfriend were moving next month to Redding, where she has a grown son.
"That's good countryside," she said.