Retired SFPD Deputy Chief Ann Mannix, husband among three found dead in Strawberry home
Retired San Francisco police Deputy Chief Ann Mannix and her husband, Kevin Mannix, a retired San Francisco police sergeant, were among three people found dead inside a Strawberry Circle home Oct. 11 after a 911 caller reported gunfire.
The Ark confirmed the couple’s identities through friends of the family. San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew informed department members of their deaths in a 7:37 p.m. email that night, which The Ark obtained.
“It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of Ann and Kevin Mannix,” Lew said in the email. “Please keep their family in your prayers.”
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office has not released the names of any of the three people found dead or said what happened inside the home.
The Sheriff’s Office received the 911 call at 5:03 p.m. The caller was inside the home during the incident and had made it outside when deputies arrived a few minutes later, Miguel Almaguer, the office’s public information officer, said at a news conference at the scene that night.
Deputies set up a perimeter, then went inside to make sure no threat remained and found three people dead, he said. Almaguer said he did not believe any juveniles were among the dead.
“The nature of those victims and their connections to one another are all part of our active investigations,” he said.
Almaguer said the victims’ families have been notified and that the coroner’s office would release their names. He said there appeared to be no earlier calls for service at the address.
Investigators were waiting for a judge to sign a search warrant before going back into the home, and the coroner’s office was expected at the scene later in the evening, he said.
“There is no threat to the community,” Almaguer said.
Strawberry Circle was expected to stay closed into the evening, he said.
Two long police careers
Ann Mannix joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1986 and retired in 2021 as a deputy chief, the highest-ranking woman in the department, The Ark reported when she retired.
She spent her first decade on patrol at Park and Bayview stations, served on the department’s SWAT team and later became the first woman to command Northern Station. She went on to lead the department’s tactical unit, its traffic company and, as a deputy chief, its Field Operations Bureau and then its Special Operations Bureau, according to The Ark’s 2021 profile and department announcements.
“I found this calling,” she told The Ark at the time. “It really spoke to me, and I truly, truly enjoyed every aspect of it.”
A Strawberry resident since 1989, Ann Mannix went to college on a basketball scholarship. She earned a political science degree from Loyola Marymount University. She served on the board of the San Francisco Police Activities League, which organizes youth sports. She was among the applicants to succeed Tiburon Police Chief Michael Cronin, who retired in 2020.
Kevin Mannix was one of the retirees honored at a June 2018 luncheon at the department’s Taraval Station, which listed him as a sergeant with 27 years of service. He spent years on the Taraval captain’s staff, working with city supervisors and community groups and organizing neighborhood events, according to a 2016 post on a Taraval community website.
This story will be updated.
Francisco Martinez contributed to this report.