Man Charged With Murder, Robbery In Fatal Saturday Shooting

SAN FRANCISCO — A 28-year-old man faces murder and second-degree robbery charges in connection with a fatal shooting in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood over the weekend, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Joe Walls is accused of killing Semaj McClure in the shooting reported at 10:21 a.m. Saturday in the area of Leavenworth and Eddy streets. Officers arrived and found McClure, who was taken to a hospital and succumbed to his injuries there, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.

Investigators found Walls in the 300 block of Turk Street and detained him after he resisted officers, who found McClure's phone on Walls' person. Surveillance footage in the area showed McClure running away from Walls shortly before the killing, prosecutors said.

Walls was set to be arraigned Wednesday on the charges, which could carry a sentence of more than 50 years to life in prison if he is convicted, according to the District Attorney's Office.

"I am grateful to the brave San Francisco police officers who ran into harm's way and the courageous witnesses who came forward to help identify the shooter who was quickly apprehended," District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a news release. "Horrific violence like this will not be tolerated in the Tenderloin or anywhere in San Francisco."

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