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.
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.
