Dacari Spiers, 36, was fatally shot on June 15, 2024, in San Francisco’s Mission District. The shooting happened around 4:00 AM on Wiese Street between 15th and 16th streets; initial reports say he was at an illegal gambling operation when he was shot. Spiers is survived by two children.

Spiers had previously been the central figure in a widely reported 2019 police brutality case after an October 6, 2019, beating near Fisherman’s Wharf by SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel that left him with a broken wrist and leg. That incident led to a 2022 excessive-force trial in which the officer was acquitted on three charges and a jury deadlocked on a fourth; Spiers later received a $700,000 civil settlement for those injuries.

The San Francisco Police Department opened an investigation after the June 15 shooting; an arrest was announced on July 3, 2024, naming 43-year-old Hin Hoang in connection with the killing. Spiers’ death was recorded as San Francisco’s 14th homicide of 2024. If anyone knew Spiers, his whereabouts that night, or the gambling operation on Wiese Street, please share what we should know.