Life In Prison For 2 Convicted In Deadly Gang Shootout At SF Fillmore Heritage Center

CBS San Francisco

December 1, 2022

Two men were sentenced on Tuesday to life in federal prison for a murder stemming from a shootout in front of the Fillmore Heritage Center in San Francisco, U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds announced.

Robert Manning, 31, and Jamare Coats, 29, were members of the Mac Block street gang in San Francisco's Western Addition. On the evening of March 23, 2019, both men engaged in a shootout in front of the center amid a crowded sidewalk which killed a young man and wounded four bystanders.

According to the Department of Justice, on the night of the murder, Manning and Coats and other Mac Block gang members and associates were inside the Heritage Center where a funeral repass was taking place.

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