Monday, August 2, 2010
Crime
Dolores Park Stabbing Victim Fights For Life
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By Joe Eskenazi
on Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:01 AM
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The scene of Saturday's early-morning robbery and stabbing
Body armor-wearing man, shot 16 times, also remains among the livingPolice believe they've arrested the knife-wielding man behind a disturbing
Saturday mob attack in Dolores Park. Up to a dozen young people swarmed a 40-year-old Asian San Francisco man, stabbing him multiple times in the torso, robbing him, and leaving him near death.
Officer Samson Chan, a San Francisco Police spokesman, told
SF Weekly that the "main suspects are in custody" -- including the only man police believe stabbed the victim.
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Police detained seven people following the early-morning stabbing and three remain in custody: A 17-, 18-, and 20-year old -- all Hispanic males residing in San Francisco. Several other "persons of interest" are being sought.
Chan said there appeared to be no motive behind the attack other than a mob targeting a vulnerable victim and robbing him. While preliminary reports said the man was deprived of a backpack, Chan was uncertain of this.
In an ostensibly unrelated -- but equally disturbing -- attack, a 33-year-old Oakland man who was wearing body armor is also clinging to life after being shot 16 times. That barrage of gunfire came at around 3:15 a.m. on Sunday morning in the 300 block of Ellis Street. No arrests have been made.
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About The Author
Joe Eskenazi
Bio:
Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.
"Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015.
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.
