Note: Police originally said the two suspects arrested were 19 and 20. A police spokesman has since clarified that they are 29 and 30.
11:40 AM: Two men were arrested after one allegedly fired a gun into the air during a fight outside a nightclub on San Francisco’s Polk Street early this morning, a police spokesman said.
Frederick Ortanez, 30, and Donnie Rodriguez, 29, were taken into custody after officers responded around 1:45 a.m. to a report of a large fight and possible shooting in the 600 block of Polk Street, police spokesman Officer Gordon Shyy said.
During the fight, Shyy said, Ortanez allegedly went to a car and grabbed a gun, fired one round into the air and then pointed the weapon at a crowd in the street.
No one was hit by the gunfire.
Witnesses reported seeing two suspects leaving the scene in a white SUV, which was stopped by officers a short time later in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, police said.
The two people inside the car were identified as the suspects involved in the Polk Street incident, and each was found to have a gun, Shyy said.
Ortanez, a Daly City resident, was booked into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an inhabited dwelling, possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm within city limits, according to Shyy.
Rodriguez, a South San Francisco resident, was booked on suspicion of possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle, Shyy said.
10:30 AM: Two men were arrested after one allegedly fired a gun into the air during a fight on San Francisco’s Polk Street early this morning, police said.
The shooting was reported at 1:46 a.m. in the 600 block of Polk Street, which is near Turk, where the suspects had gotten into a fight, according to police.
One allegedly went to a car and grabbed a gun, shot one round into the air and then pointed the weapon at a crowd in the street, police said.
No one was hit by the gunfire.
The suspects then fled in the vehicle, a white SUV, but were later located and arrested in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, where officers also found a second firearm in the car, police said.
Police have not yet released the names of the suspects but say they are ages 19 and 20.
Dan McMenamin, Bay City News
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