S.F. police ID officer in fatal shooting of suspect

The San Francisco police officer who fatally shot an Oakland man near AT&T Park was identified Friday as a six-year veteran of the force.

Southern station Officer David Goff fired seven shots at O’Shaine Evans, 26, during the final minutes of Tuesday’s Giants game against the Washington Nationals after he said Evans pointed an unloaded .380-caliber gun at him.

Police said Goff had approached Evans while he sat in the driver’s seat of a four-door sedan parked on the 400 block of Bryant Street. Police Chief Greg Suhr said Goff was one of five officers and a sergeant who had observed two men who were not Evans leave the car, break into a Mercedes-Benz SUV parked in Jack London Alley and steal a laptop.

Once the men returned to the car, Suhr said Goff, who was wearing a shirt over his uniform so he wouldn’t stand out while working the postgame crowd, identified himself as a police officer as he walked up to the driver’s side door. The front-seat passenger, Steven Oliver Moore, 24, jumped out of the car and attempted to flee, police say.

Some of the other officers converging on the car chased him, Suhr said, and Goff saw a pistol on Evans’ lap.

When the officer asked Evans to show him his hands, Suhr said, Evans pointed the gun at him, forcing the officer to fire seven times into the car, striking Evans twice and once hitting the rear passenger, a 28-year-old San Leandro resident who has not been identified.

Moore was arrested on suspicion of second-degree burglary, possession of burglary tools, possession of stolen property, conspiracy and homicide — as part of the felony homicide rule, which states that if someone is killed while a felony is being committed, anyone engaged in the commission of the felony can be charged with homicide.

Evans’ family spoke at a town hall meeting Thursday night, expressing doubt over Goff’s account of the shooting. They questioned how visible his uniform was with the shirt covering it, and if Evans could have known he was a police officer without being able to see his full uniform.

“So it’s possible that someone in the nighttime would not be fully aware that this was a police officer following them?” Evans’ family member Massina Moore asked Suhr. “He was not fully dressed like how you are. You said he was wearing a T-shirt to minimize his appearance.”

Suhr responded: “He was coming to the car yelling that he was a police officer, asking him to show his hands.”

“But why did he not reveal himself?” asked Evans’ brother, Wesley Hicks. “Why was he still covered up? When you have what you want in front of you, why not expose yourself?”

“It would have been better if the offiers didn’t still have any cover on at all,” Suhr said.

As part of department protocol, Goff has been put on paid leave. The shooting will be investigated by police and the city district attorney’s office.