SF filmmaker arrested in Glen Park shooting death

San Francisco police arrested a local filmmaker in connection with the fatal shooting of a man Monday afternoon inside a home in the Glen Park neighborhood, officials said.

Kevin Joseph Epps, 48, was booked into San Francisco County Jail Monday evening on suspicion of homicide and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to Sgt. Michael Andraychak, a police spokesman.

San Francisco police officers who responded to the home on the 100 block of Addison Street just after 1:30 p.m. found a man in his 40s suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, officials said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

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No further details of the circumstances of the confrontation that led to the shooting death were released Monday night.

Shortly after 5 p.m., as a handful of neighbors stood watching in the street, a group of young women pushed past police tape to try to enter the two-unit home where the shooting occurred.

One of the women called out, “Please let me see my dad, please,” before being ordered off the property by police. The women would not comment on the shooting.

Epps is an award-winning filmmaker known best for “Straight Outta Hunters Point,” the 2001 movie in which he explored the devastation of the neighborhood in which he grew up.

He made a second movie, “Straight Outta Hunters Point 2” in 2014. In both of his films, he captured the violence and drug culture that he described as destroying neighborhoods, and in interviews he said his goal was to faithfully describe the Hunters Point community that was struggling but still had much to offer. Epps has made it his mission to show the world what's going on in the neighborhood where he grew up.

Epps, a community activist, was also a vocal protester of the officer-involved shooting that killed Oscar Grant at an Oakland BART station early on New Year’s Day 2009.

Rebecca Malette, 72, lives down the street from the site of the shooting and said the neighborhood is quiet. “I’m sorry for the family,” she said. “I don’t know what happened.”

Epps was being held without bail.

Jenna Lyons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jlyons@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JennaJourno