Two men killed when a street brawl escalated into gunfire in San Francisco's troubled Visitacion Valley neighborhood are described in a court document as having ties to a local street gang with a violent history.
The men, identified as Frederick Glaspie, 27, and Marche Daniels, 25, both of San Francisco, were found mortally wounded Monday afternoon when police responded to a fight on Burr Avenue.
Police investigators have not said publicly whether the clash was gang related, but the department's gang task force was called to the scene to assist in the investigation.
In a 2010 declaration filed by the city attorney's office, police Officer Joshua Kumli described Glaspie and Daniels as being members of the Towerside street gang. The declaration was filed as part of a request for a court injunction, which was granted in February 2011, to keep gang members from associating with each other.
In his sworn statement, Kumli said that when Glaspie was detained for brandishing a silver handgun and threatening an ex-girlfriend in 2005, he admitted to being a member of Towerside since age 14.
Kumli described Daniels as a "fellow gang member" who was wounded almost four years earlier in a suspected shooting by members of the rival Down Below Gangsters, just a few blocks away from Monday's incident.
Gang injunctions prohibit known gang members named on an "enforcement list" from participating in certain activities in certain area. Although he was named in the declaration, Daniels was not placed on the list.
Relatives of Glaspie and Daniels could not be reached for comment.
Glaspie's and Daniels' deaths marked the fifth and sixth homicides in a spate of gun violence that has occurred near or in the injunction's "safety zone."
Hours after Monday's shootings, a group of individuals drove past the intersection of Sunnydale Avenue and Rey Street - four blocks from the afternoon incident - and fired at another group gathered on the sidewalk. They hit a 37-year-old bystander's car, but wounded no one.
The city attorney's office has injunctions against six other gangs - including the Down Below Gangsters - in the Mission District, the Western Addition and Bayview-Hunters Point. Officials tracked arrest data after the injunctions outside Visitacion Valley and found that the injunctions had a "cooling-off effect" on many of the gang members listed.
City attorney spokesman Jack Song said he could not comment on Monday's fatal shootings and enforcement of the injunctions.
Police have since increased patrols of uniformed and plainclothes officers in hopes of preventing retaliatory violence. There have been no arrests in either of the shootings. Anyone with information should call the department's anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444.
Vivian Ho is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: vho@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @VivianHo
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