Man gets 82 years for murder after SF fender-bender

Michael Green, 28, was sentenced to 82 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting 23-year-old Melquiesha Warren in November 2013. Michael Green, 28, was sentenced to 82 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting 23-year-old Melquiesha Warren in November 2013. Photo: Courtesy, San Francisco Police Department Photo: Courtesy, San Francisco Police Department Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Man gets 82 years for murder after SF fender-bender 1 / 3 Back to Gallery

A man was sentenced Tuesday to 82 years to life in prison for opening fire on two women, killing one and seriously injuring the other, following a fender-bender outside a San Francisco nightclub.

Michael Green, 28, was convicted in August of murder, attempted murder and other charges in connection with the Nov. 17, 2013, shooting in the South of Market neighborhood. Melquiesha “Mel” Warren, 23, was killed and her childhood friend Danisha Bean was wounded.

Warren had been celebrating her wife’s birthday with some friends at Club OMG on Sixth Street. After leaving the club about 2 a.m., she and Bean were sitting in Bean’s car in a parking lot at Sixth and Jessie streets when a car carrying two people backed into them.

Warren got out of the car to inspect the damage — the bumper had fallen off. She was confronted by a woman in a red dress who tried to force Bean out of the car also, but Bean had her seat belt on.

Green then opened fire, authorities said, striking Warren in the head and Bean in the side. They were taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where Warren died and Bean remained in treatment for 38 days.

“This was an extremely heinous crime that left one woman deceased and one severely injured,” said District Attorney George Gascón after the sentencing. “A woman who had her hands up was effectively murdered over a fender-bender. The only appropriate outcome for someone who takes life with this level of ease and callousness is to spend the rest of their days behind bars.”

Green was arrested six months after the shooting, with investigators tracking him down in Miami. An attorney for Green did not immediately respond Tuesday to requests for comment, but during the trial she argued witnesses had wrongly identified Green as the gunman.

Warren graduated in 2012 from Cal State Sacramento where she majored in criminal justice and minored in philosophy. She grew up in Oakland and attended Tennyson High in Hayward where she played on the basketball team. She was six days away from her 24th birthday when she was killed.

Vivian Ho is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: vho@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @VivianHo