Two television news crews robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco

Friday, July 3, 2015
Two television news were robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco, Thursday, July 1, 2015.
Two television news crews were robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco, Thursday, July 1, 2015 and police have released a photo of the alleged suspect.
KGO-TV

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police are investigating an armed robbery involving two television news crews Friday morning in San Francisco.

The news crews were among several stations covering the deadly shooting of a woman at Pier 14.

Shortly after 6 a.m., an armed man approached a KNTV photographer, pistol-whipped him and threw him to the ground.

When a photographer from KTVU tried to intervene, the robber took both of their cameras at gunpoint.

The suspect then jumped into a waiting black BMW 7 series with two men inside, and took off.

The KNTV photographer is expected to recover. No one else was injured.

A magazine clip for a semi-automatic weapon was found on the ground. Police collected the magazine and took witness statements at the scene.