Paul Dancik was 26 and an artist from San Francisco when he was shot and killed on December 11, 1973. He was standing near a telephone booth on Haight Street in the Fillmore neighborhood when two young men approached and fired a .32 caliber handgun, striking him three times in the chest; he died at the scene.

Dancik’s killing was one of a string of racially motivated attacks in San Francisco between October 1973 and April 1974 known as the Zebra murders. The perpetrators called themselves the Death Angels and targeted white victims; the campaign left at least 15 people dead and numerous others wounded. A warehouse worker later provided information that led to the 1974 arrests of Manuel Moore, Larry Green, Jessie Lee Cooks, and J.C.X. Simon; those four were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and received life sentences.

Does anyone have memories of Haight Street or the Fillmore in late 1973 that could shed light on how these attacks affected the neighborhood?