Four men have been arrested in connection with the shooting of San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Keion White at a nightclub in February, officials said Wednesday. The shooting occurred just after 4 a.m. on Feb. 9 at the crowded Mission District nightclub Dahlia, where White was hosting a private Super Bowl party. White was shot in the ankle and taken to a local hospital for surgery, the 49ers said at the time.
San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew said authorities arrested four men over the past week with the help of law enforcement agencies in Atlanta, Stockton, Irvine and Los Angeles. The night of the shooting, multiple suspects with firearms "confronted" White, Lew said. Investigators used video footage and witness accounts to identify the men they say are the perpetrators.
On Oct. 7, local law enforcement arrested 35-year-old Curtis Green in Irvine, and two days later authorities arrested 36-year-old Gregory Walker of Mountain House, California. The men were booked into San Francisco County Jail on Monday and scheduled to appear in court Wednesday afternoon. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said prosecutors would seek no bail for Walker because of the public safety risk they said he poses. He will be charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm, which prosecutors say he fired, as well as other charges for having a gun as a felon.
Green faces misdemeanor charges of brandishing a firearm and carrying a concealed and loaded gun in public, Jenkins said. Two other men arrested in other jurisdictions are not yet in local custody and will be charged once they are brought to San Francisco. One was arrested Oct. 7 in Atlanta on a no-bail warrant, and police seized an illegal firearm along with thousands of grams of drugs at his home. That same day, a 36-year-old man was arrested in Stockton, where authorities recovered a loaded firearm, over 100 oxycodone pills and $7,000 in cash. White has appeared in all five games this season for the 49ers, totaling three sacks.
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