SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Police continued the hunt for a gunman who opened fire in a Mission District park crowded with parents, children and tourists on a warm summer’s day, wounding three people and sending panicky people running for safety.
Investigators were trying to determine a motive for Thursday’s attack, which turned normally peaceful Dolores Park into a chaotic scene of bleeding victims and fleeing visitors.
A man who identified himself only as Hatter said the attack came after park regulars confronted about a half-dozen men who were shouting and acting threateningly on a park bridge.
Some of those men wore bandannas covering most of their faces, he said.
Hatter said he “went up there to mediate and make sure everything was OK and nobody was fighting,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle.