When Sandra Rodrigues returned to her San Francisco homeless shelter on Saturday evening, she was greeted by an unnerving surprise. Blood was spattered in the lobby, and police tape blocked the entrance to the three-story building, where a man had been shot four times in the stomach.
Up to that point, the four months she spent living at the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Multi-Service Center South — which bills itself as the city’s largest and most extensive homeless shelter, at 525 Fifth St. — had been positive, she said. But suddenly, she was afraid for her safety.
She wondered whether any of her friends at the facility, or the social workers she’d come to rely upon, were injured or dead…