San Francisco police arrested Shakia Vanderbilt in the Warfield shooting that killed Ulysses Tykee Davis.

An arrest in a fatal shooting is custody. It is not a finding that Vanderbilt shot Ulysses Tykee Davis. The Standard's account of what District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she is charged with, and Bay City News's account of a jail record that still says suspicion of murder with no court date, are not the same paper. KTVU reported the city and the jail do not even agree on her age. A news conference and a jail caption can both be current. Neither one is a plea.

KTVU, the San Francisco Standard, and Bay City News reported Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, that San Francisco police arrested Shakia Vanderbilt on Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a security guard outside the Warfield Theatre on Market Street. The Standard and Bay City News identified the man who died as Ulysses Tykee Davis, 47, through the city medical examiner. Bay City News reported he was a Contra Costa County resident. KTVU and the Standard reported he was working security at a "Baddies" event. KTVU reported Zeus Network produces the show. KTVU reported he was known to friends and family as Bear, and that he grew up in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. The Standard and Bay City News put the shooting at about 1 a.m. Saturday. Bay City News put the call in the 900 block of Market Street, where officers found a man with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital and died. A death after a shooting call is what those accounts reported. It is not a finding about who fired.

The outlets do not agree on her age or on how far the case has moved. KTVU reported that authorities identified Vanderbilt as 42 and that online jail records list her as 32, and that police have not explained the difference. The Standard reported she is 42 and of San Francisco. Bay City News reported she is 32. KTVU reported she was arrested on suspicion of murder. The Standard reported that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Vanderbilt is charged with murder with a firearm enhancement, intentionally discharging a firearm in an occupied building, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Standard reported she was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon and that prosecutors will ask that she be held without bail. Bay City News, citing jail records, reported she remained in custody Wednesday on suspicion of murder and that a court date had not been set. A district attorney's description of charges at a news conference is one account of the filing. A jail book that still says suspicion, with no date, is another. They were both published Wednesday. They are not a conviction.

What happened in the doorway is also told differently. Police Chief Derrick Lew told the Standard that Vanderbilt was escorted outside the Warfield after a disruption, that a dispute followed, and that the shooting was about 1 a.m. Saturday. Lew declined to say whether she targeted Davis. He said there is footage of the shooting. Jenkins told the Standard that Vanderbilt possibly brought a gun inside despite the venue's screening. Jenkins said, "Nobody should worry that if they go watch a show at a venue that somebody is armed inside," and, "We want to hold those accountable who think that gun violence is okay in our city." KTVU reported that Terrance Cooper, Davis's brother-in-law, said Davis was helping escort a "rowdy" woman from the theater near Market and Taylor at about 1 a.m. when she shot him in the back. KTVU reported Cooper said Davis's wife and two of his six children were there. Cooper said, "Bear would give you the shirt off his back," and, "If you ever called him and you needed him, he was always there." Bay City News reported that police did not share what led to the shooting. A chief who will not say the guard was the target, a brother-in-law who says the woman shot him in the back, and a police account that gives no motive are three versions. The wife and the children are not named here. Their presence, as Cooper described it, is not an identification of the shooter.

KTVU reported San Francisco police spokesman Robert Rueca said investigators are also checking whether the Warfield had the permits for the event and whether it was run within those limits. KTVU reported Lemmuel Plummer, the chief executive of Zeus Network, which produces "Baddies," had not responded, and that the Warfield had not responded. The Standard, citing Mission Local, reported Warfield staffers said Davis was working security and that bartenders described a chemical irritant, possibly bear mace, that sent people toward the exits. The Standard reported the Warfield's management did not answer its questions. A bartender's account of a spray, relayed through another newsroom, is not a police finding about a gun. The Standard reported police statistics of 21 homicides in San Francisco this year through Sunday, compared with 19 at the same point last year. Lew said, "We have made great strides as a city in reducing gun violence and homicides, and we will continue to devote resources into preventing violence of this kind." A yearly tally is not this case. Thursday's arraignment, if the Standard's account of Jenkins is the one the court follows, is the next date. The jail record Bay City News described had no date. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.