A shooter is on the loose after wounding a woman near San Francisco State's campus on Monday night, creating a panic among students and nearby residents in Park Merced as information trickled out.
The university was also disturbed by a power outage that Pacific Gas & Electric workers restored at 1:15 a.m.
The shooting occurred around 7 p.m. at a house on Serrano Drive near the university's J. Paul Leonard Library.
The woman in her twenties was struck in the torso with what were described by officials as non-life threatening injuries.
It was unknown if the woman was an SF State student, according to San Francisco Police Department spokesman Michael Andraychak.
Authorities tried calming students and residents that there was not a wider threat. Although the suspect fled, police believe that they know the shooter's identity.
But many people criticized the university on Twitter, saying they were slow to inform students, because the shooting didn't happen directly on campus.
There was a shooting right across from the SF State library about 2 hours ago, and still there's been no official response from @SFSU I had to find out from other students smh
— Anthonio (@anthotio_r)
February 26, 2019 In all honesty, SFSU was careless not to at least warn the students of the shooting that occurred across the street! We could have literally stumbled across the suspect. Since when is education worth more than our lives??
— Ana (@anatshell)
February 26, 2019 Some compared the university's handling of information about the shooting with its recent conflicting messages about whether classes were cancelled due to another recent power outage.
College:where the school will call you 3 + times at 5 AM to tell you class is canceled bc a power outage and then again at 7:30 to say they’re back in session along with your 8 am classes , but will only email you once 3 HOURS after a shooting on/around campus. Yay @SFSU
— -- Stephanie (@Storres2484)
February 26, 2019
