On the evening of September 4, 2024, at about 8:32 p.m., 20-year-old Joseph Miguel Zarate was shot in San Francisco’s Mission District in the 2000 block of Mission Street near the 16th Street BART plaza. Officers from the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station found Zarate with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital and later died from his injuries. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office identified him shortly after the incident. Zarate was a resident of Tulare County, California.

Police have identified two suspects and arrested them, but authorities have not released the suspects’ names or detailed what led up to the shooting. The San Francisco Police Department is asking anyone with information to call the SFPD tip line at (415) 575-4444 or send a text to TIP411 beginning the message with SFPD.

Did anyone in the area around 16th Street BART that evening see anything relevant to the shooting?