Urban Alchemy Worker Fatally Shot Outside SF Main Library

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/01/urban-alchemy-worker-fatally-shot-outside-sf-main-library/A street ambassador from the nonprofit Urban Alchemy who was on patrol outside the San Francisco Main Library on Friday was shot and killed, allegedly after asking the suspect in the case to stop using drugs in public. Over the weekend, SFist briefly noted a Friday shooting outside the library in which the victim was left critically injured. That victim has since died, and we're now learning that he was an employee of Urban Alchemy. As the Chronicle reports, 60-year-old Joey Alexander of Oakland succumbed to his wounds early Tuesday following the Friday shooting. Alexander, who was formerly incarcerated, had been on patrol outside the SF Main Library, near the libr