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Two Chinese seniors attacked on Bayview streets
Two Chinese seniors were attacked on Bayview streets around 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 19, Sing Tao reports. An 89-year-old woman in a wheelchair was kicked over outside the Third Street library and taken to a hospital, and a woman in her 70s dodged a man swinging a plastic crate near the T-line's Oakdale/Palou stop. Police are investigating and have stepped up patrols in the area.
Husband of slain UCSF social worker sues city over ‘woefully inadequate security’
The husband of a UCSF social worker killed at San Francisco General Hospital is suing the city over security. The lawsuit alleges that security staff knew when the alleged attacker, Alberto Rangel, planned to arrive and failed to stop him, Mission Local reports. It describes the hospital's security as "woefully inadequate."
S.F. staff say gunman held them ‘hostage.’ DA says they hid him.
Two workers at the Bayshore Navigation Center are accused of helping the gunman who shot an SFPD officer on May 31. The workers say the man held them hostage; the district attorney says they hid him, Mission Local reports. A judge was set to weigh the evidence this week.
SFPD arrests 2 for separate homicides in Hunters Point, Potrero Hill
San Francisco police arrested two suspects, one of them a teenager, in the killings of a man in Potrero Hill and another in Hunters Point, Mission Local reports.