San Francisco police have arrested a 39-year-old man in San Rafael in connection with a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a man riding a motorized scooter at Franklin and Pine streets, the San Francisco Police Department announced on Friday, October 30, 2026. The suspect, identified by police as Daniel Llama, was taken into custody on Thursday, October 29, and booked into San Francisco County Jail for hit-and-run collision resulting in death and vehicular manslaughter. KRON4 reported the same arrest the same day, citing the police department.
Source: San Francisco Police Department
What happened at Franklin and Pine
On October 24, 2026, at approximately 5:08 a.m., officers from Northern Station responded to the area of Franklin and Pine streets for a vehicle collision involving injuries, police said. Officers located a person who had been injured while riding a motorized scooter, rendered aid, and medics transported the adult male victim to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Despite the efforts of medical staff, the victim died in hospital. Police have not released the victim's name in the announcement, and this report does not name him.
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Investigators determined that a vehicle struck the victim and fled the scene without rendering aid, police said. The department's Traffic Collision Investigation Unit (TCIU) took over the investigation. Franklin Street is one of San Francisco's major north-south arterials, carrying early-morning traffic through the city's Western Addition and Pacific Heights edge, and Pine Street is a principal east-west route into downtown — an intersection where scooters, bicycles, buses and cars share fast-moving lanes before dawn.
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How investigators found the vehicle in San Rafael
Through the course of the investigation, TCIU investigators working with the department's Sideshow Response and Enforcement Unit (SREU) identified and located the suspect vehicle in San Rafael, in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge, police said. On October 29, TCIU and SREU officers went to San Rafael, located the vehicle where the suspect was also located, and, with the assistance of the San Rafael Police Department, took Llama into custody without further incident. The vehicle was seized and towed to San Francisco for the investigation, police said.
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SFPD officers then transported Llama to San Francisco County Jail, where he was booked for hit-and-run collision resulting in death, under California Vehicle Code section 20001(a), and vehicular manslaughter, under Penal Code section 192(c)(2), according to the department. KRON4, reporting the arrest independently on October 30, described Llama as a San Rafael man booked at the county jail on suspicion of a hit-and-run collision resulting in death, matching the department's account.
Source: KRON4 via The San Francisco
An arrest and a jail booking are allegations, not a conviction. The charges cited by police are the offences for which Llama was booked; prosecutors must still decide on formal charges, and a court must prove any charge beyond a reasonable doubt. Llama is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. This report uses 'alleged' framing for the collision itself because no court has yet tested the evidence.
Why hit-and-run cases turn on the first hours
California law requires a driver involved in a collision involving injury or death to stop, give information and render reasonable assistance. Leaving the scene is itself a felony when someone is killed, separate from whatever caused the crash. That is why investigators moved first to find the vehicle: a seized car can preserve paint, damage and electronic evidence that links it to a scene, while surveillance and witness accounts from the Franklin and Pine area can be checked against it. Police have not said in this announcement what evidence identified the San Rafael vehicle, and no further detail should be assumed until investigators or prosecutors put it on the record.
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What happens next — and what police are still asking for
Police stressed that, while an arrest has been made, the investigation remains open and active. Anyone with information is asked to contact SFPD at 1-415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411, beginning the message with 'SFPD'. The case number is 260-627-553. The next steps in cases of this kind are a prosecutorial charging decision, a first court appearance for the person booked, and the completion of the collision investigation; SFPD gave no court date in its announcement, and none is reported here as fact.
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For Punjabi and other South Asian readers in the Bay Area — in San Francisco itself and in the large communities across San Rafael, the East Bay and the South Bay — the case is a reminder of the particular risk faced by two-wheeler riders in the pre-dawn hours, when visibility is low and arterial traffic is fast. Riders are urged to use lights and reflective gear, and drivers who strike anyone are urged, by law and by police, to stop: leaving turns a crash into a felony investigation, as this week's arrest shows.
Source: KRON4 via The San Francisco