UPS employees shot and attacked with machetes

Bay City News Service

October 28, 2006

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Two men suffered serious wounds in a vicious attack early this morning in the parking lot of a UPS building in South San Francisco, South San Francisco police Sgt. Danny Gil reported.

According to Gil, the two men, who are UPS employees, were drinking in an overflow parking lot at a UPS building at the corner of Gull Drive and Forbes Blvd. at 12:47 a.m. when an altercation began with a group of men.

While police are still investigating the details of the attack, Gil said that both employees were shot, one in the back of the head, and at some point both men were also attacked with a machete and suffered severed fingers.

The two men were hospitalized in serious condition at San Francisco General Hospital. Gil said that the suspects are all Hispanic men, who fled the scene in two cars.

Police believe there were at least four men in each car, Gil said.

No arrests have been made and police are looking for a gray four-door, possibly lowered Chevy Caprice and a gray, older-model Ford Taurus with tinted windows, according to Gil.

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