Feud between neighbors precedes police-involved shooting in SF

San Francisco police officers shot and wounded a man early Friday in the city’s Ocean View neighborhood after responding to a report of a dispute between two neighbors, officials said.

The shooting was reported about 3:51 a.m. at a residence on the 500 block of Capitol Avenue at Minerva Street, near the Ocean View Recreation Center, said Officer Giselle Talkoff, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department.

A San Francisco Police officer was involved in a shooting early Friday at Capitol Avenue and Minerva Street. Officials are asking people to avoid the area. A San Francisco Police officer was involved in a shooting early Friday at Capitol Avenue and Minerva Street. Officials are asking people to avoid the area. Photo: Hamed Aleaziz / The Chronicle / Hamed Aleaziz / The Chronicle Photo: Hamed Aleaziz / The Chronicle / Hamed Aleaziz / The Chronicle Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Feud between neighbors precedes police-involved shooting in SF 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

Two uniformed police officers responded to a call of a restraining order violation stemming from a dispute between two neighbors, Talkoff said. She said one resident called 911 to report that a neighbor they were involved in an ongoing conflict with was banging on a wall.

When the officers tried to talk to a man involved in the dispute, he became physical and officers used pepper spray on him when he grabbed one of their batons, Talkoff said.

“Pepper spray was deployed, the officer’s baton was taken and shots were fired,” Talkoff said.

The wounded man managed to barricade himself in a home, and he refused orders to come out, she said.

Tactical officer tried to talk him into surrendering, Talkoff said. During the standoff, the man called 911 to say he had been shot, she said.

Officers eventually stormed the house and took the man into custody, Talkoff said.

Two officers were injured in the confrontation, one suffered a non-life-threatening head injury, Talkoff said. It was not clear how the other officer was injured.

According to a temporary restraining order request filed in December, the man who was shot had been been making threatening remarks to the family next door ever since a criminal protective order was granted after he allegedly assaulted the family’s adult son in 2011.

The 42-year-old man pleaded not guilty or no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge against a neighbor in 2013, according to court records, and was sentenced to 60 days in county jail and three-years probation. He was also ordered to stay away from the son and his family under a criminal protective order.

While criminal protective orders typically last about three years, it is unclear what the extent of this particular order was as the man had violated the terms of his probation. The family said in their application for a restraining order that the order expired in December 2014, after which, the man began standing on the sidewalk outside their home, saying he was going to kill the 67-year-old family patriarch.

He also “hits my wall very hard from his stairs. This morning (Dec. 19), he slammed my wall at 6:22 a.m., 6:24 a.m. and 6:49 a.m.,” the neighbor wrote in the application.

The neighbor said in June, the man hit him on the left shoulder. “He was upset that I wanted to go up his stairs to look at the latest damage to my wall. The officers could not do anything because (he) claimed I hit him,” the neighbor wrote.

The neighbor said the man had previously damaged his wall to the extent it had patch it up about a year ago. The family also suspects “that he is also the person responsible for damage to two of our cars, which were kicked by someone with a foot size similar to his,” they wrote in the application.

A temporary restraining order was granted on Dec. 20 and served to the man on Dec. 23.

Hamed Aleaziz and Vivian Ho are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: haleaziz@sfchronicle.com vho@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Haleaziz @VivianHo