Suspect Arrested Hours After Fatal San Francisco Tenderloin Shooting
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Police in San Francisco arrested a man late Thursday night in connection with a deadly shooting in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood earlier in the day.
According to authorities, the suspect is connected to a fatal shooting in the area of Market and Jones streets around 10:10 a.m.
Responding officers found a man, later identified as 43-year-old Howard Dixon of San Francisco, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Dixon was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, but later died.
Police said homicide investigators took over the case and released a crime alert to officers to help locate and identify the suspect.
Around 11:55 p.m. Thursday, police said officers with the Narcotics Detail found the suspect near 8th and Howard Streets, several blocks away from the shooting scene. The suspect, identified as 49-year-old Leonard Lee Colvin of San Francisco was booked into the county jail on suspicion of murder.
Police said Colvin was on parole for a previous conviction of voluntary manslaughter.
According to jail records, Colvin is being held without bail. It was not immediately known when he would appear in court.