San Francisco filmmaker won’t face criminal charges
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco filmmaker and community activist arrested in connection with a fatal shooting won’t immediately face criminal charges, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The district attorney’s office found insufficient evidence to immediately press charges against Kevin Epps, the San Francisco Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/2dHyYsf ).
Epps, 48, won acclaim for gritty movies about the violence and poverty plaguing city communities. He is best known for his 2001 film “Straight Outta Hunters Point,” which explored the devastation of the neighbourhood where he was raised. He followed it with “Straight Outta Hunters Point 2” in 2014.
Epps was arrested Monday afternoon, shortly after a man was found shot dead in his house in the Glen Park neighbourhood. Epps was booked on suspicion of murder and being a felon in possession of a gun.