Crime & Safety

SF Police Announce an Arrest in Murder of Five People Found Dead in Home Near City College

Victims appear to have been shot.

San Francisco police have made an arrest in the found dead at 16 Howth Street early Friday morning.

Police executed search warrants in San Francisco and San Mateo County this morning and arrested a San Francisco resident in connection with the murders, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said today.

The medical examiner is still trying to confirm the cause of death and the identities of the five people found dead in the two-story Ingleside home, Suhr said.

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Three of the victims were discovered around 7:45 a.m. Friday by a family member with a key, who called 911. Police found the other two victims in another part of the house.

A man was found in the threshold of the home, while a man and woman were found in the garage, another woman was found upstairs and a third woman was found downstairs, Suhr said.

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