Gifted San Francisco youth lost to street violence

December 29, 2005

A gifted young San Franciscan lost his life to street violence Monday, becoming another statistic in city homicides of 2005.

Terrell Anderson, a 23-year-old father and promising basketball player at City college, was shot in the head multiple times outside a Broadway dance club early Monday.

As a father, he traveled to New Orleans to retrieve his daughter two weeks before Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. He recently won a sports scholarship to the University of San Francisco.

No arrests have been made in the slaying.

The San Francisco Police Department is understaffed by some 250-300 officers, the Police Chief's Office has estimated.

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