A man fatally shot outside San Francisco’s main library was an employee of Urban Alchemy — the nonprofit group hired by the city to try to calm some of its roughest downtown streets — who had asked the alleged gunman to refrain from using drugs in public, organization leaders said Tuesday.
Joey Alexander, a 60-year-old Oakland resident, died Monday from his injuries, police said. Alexander was shot by the suspect, 42-year-old Edmund Lawrence Bowen, just before 5 p.m. on Friday near the front door of the library on Larkin Street, near City Hall in the Tenderloin, authorities said.
According to the nonprofit, Alexander approached the suspect and asked him to stop openly using drugs, telling him there were families nearby. The suspect pulled a shotgun from his bag, said “F— Urban Alchemy,” and then shot Alexander at close range, the organization said…