Shot San Francisco man had hammer, not gun

By Janie Har and John Antczak
Updated June 4 2020 - 11:31am, first published 11:30am
A suspected looter shot dead in San Francisco protests had a hammer, not a gun as police thought.
A suspected looter shot dead in San Francisco protests had a hammer, not a gun as police thought.

A man suspected of looting a pharmacy in the San Francisco Bay area was fatally shot by officers who thought he was carrying a firearm in his waistband, but it turned out to be a hammer, police say.