Muni bus carjacked in San Francisco's Mission District Friday night - San Francisco Chronicle

Nov. 26, 2022Updated: Nov. 26, 2022 1:35 p.m.

Just earlier 8 p.m. Friday, Dancy allegedly assaulted the Muni operator and commandeered the conveyance astatine Cortland and Mission streets. From there, helium drove much than a mile northbound to 19th and Guerrero streets, hitting respective different cars on the way, said San Francisco constabulary nationalist accusation serviceman Robert Rueca.

Officer Raj Vaswani tweeted Friday night that astir 10 cars had been deed by the bus. There were nary passengers aboard astatine the time.

Video of the incidental obtained by KRON4 shows the bare Muni autobus swerving successful the mediate of the street, crossing implicit into the other lane, and cutting disconnected cars arsenic it made wide close turns.

Delaney Rua, who was moving astatine Delfina successful the Mission connected Friday night, said that from the edifice she saw respective sirens and six to 8 constabulary cars parked on 18th Street up to the intersection with Guerrero, arsenic good arsenic 2 oregon 3 much blocking the intersection from the Guerrero side.

The bus, she said, was parked diagonally crossed that intersection with “EMERGENCY CALL POLICE 911” flashing connected the show supra the windshield that would usually place the line.

Rueca said constabulary took Dancy into custody aft the autobus was stopped. He did not supply immoderate imaginable motive for the hijacking.

An ambulance responded to the country to dainty the autobus operator and different motorist for what Rueca said appeared to beryllium non-life-threatening injuries. The incidental is nether investigation.

By 10 a.m. Saturday, determination were nary signs of damages 19th and Guerrero, witnesses said.

Danielle Echeverria is simply a San Francisco Chronicle unit writer. Email: danielle.echeverria@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @DanielleEchev