A student at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School was shot in the leg during the lunch hour on Monday, December 2, marking another troubling incident of gun violence on a San Francisco school campus. The shooting occurred around 12:10 p.m. at the Portola neighborhood school, sending the campus into immediate lockdown and prompting a swift response from law enforcement and emergency personnel.
The victim, a teenage male student, sustained a gunshot wound to his leg and was transported to a local hospital where he remains in stable condition, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. The suspected shooter, also a juvenile male, fled the campus but was apprehended approximately one mile away in the 1400 block of Shafter Avenue in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, where police recovered a firearm during the arrest.
Update: a suspect is in custody.
— Jackie Fielder (@JackieFielder_) December 2, 2025
Swift Response and Campus Lockdown
District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder was among the first officials to publicly address the incident, posting on X (formerly Twitter) that her office had been informed of the shooting at approximately 12:40 p.m. San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su praised the school’s immediate response, noting that staff followed security protocols by locking down the campus and preventing students from entering or leaving the premises, as reported by SFGate…