Two girls were arrested last month in connection with an “unprovoked” assault in the city’s SoMa neighborhood, San Francisco police said.
The attack unfolded around 2:54 p.m. on July 26, when officers were called to the 100 block of Fourth Street near Mission Street. Two people had been jumped by a group of teenage girls, police said, but suffered no life threatening injuries. Witnesses told officers that bystanders stepped in to break up the attack, causing the group to scatter on foot.
Surveillance footage captured by the department’s real time investigation center was quickly reviewed and shared with officers across the city. Within hours, plainclothes officers from the Taraval Station street crimes unit spotted a group matching the attackers’ descriptions at Stonestown Galleria and mobilized to arrest them…