The San Francisco Medical Examiner declared today that 71-yer-old Sutchi Hui died from blunt force trauma to his head after being hit by a cyclist speeding through the Castro District last month.
Hui was walking across the street at Market and Castro when Chris Bucchere sped through the intersection on his bike, hitting Hui. Initially, Hui was taken to the hospital and listed in stable condition, but his condition worsened, and four days later he died.
The Medical Examiner's Office told media outlets today that Hui had developed pneumonia
while at the hospital, and experienced breathing problems in the final days before he died.
The District Attorney's Office has said they believe there's plenty of evidence to file felony vehicular manslaughter charges against 35-year-old Bucchere. However, they are waiting for police to formally present their case to the DA.
(Update 4 p.m.): The Medical Examiner has identified the man killed early this morning as 21-year-old William Castillo of San Francisco.
(Original story 9:10 a.m.): A 23-year-old man was shot to death early this morning near the Sunnydale Housing Projects, according to police.
Sgt. Daryl Fong said just after midnight, police responded to a Shotspotter activation near the 1700 block of Sunnydale. When they arrived, they found the victim between two buildings with gunshot wounds to his upper body.
He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A kitchen fire interrupted lunch for more than 150 patrons dining at Kokkari restaurant in the city's Financial District this afternoon.
The fire started at the upscale Greek restaurant around 1:30 p.m. However, nobody inside the restaurant even noticed until the fire trucks arrived. Folks passing by the restaurant, located at 200 Jackson St., saw smoke billowing out of the building, so they dialed 911.
SF Weekly Staff Writer Laura Murray is at the scene and talked to a chef who said the kitchen staff hadn't noticed anything burning where they were cooking.
The now-infamous Eliana Lopez video may be used as evidence in suspended-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's ethics hearing, Judge Garrett Wong ruled.
A Livermore man is sitting behind bars today after he was spotted this morning hurling a chihuahua from a motel balcony and then pointing a gun at a guest who confronted him about the animal cruelty.
A guest at Motel 6 on
Lassen Road saw 39-year-old Michael Hamby toss the dog from a second-floor balcony, Sgt. John Hurd told media outlets.
The dog landed paws-first on the ground.
After seeing this act of cruelty, the motel guest picked a fight with Hamby over why he had thrown the dog, Hurd said. The fight became heated and a motel clerk intervened, telling the two guests to go to their own rooms. Shortly after, the guest got a knock on his door, and when he opened it, "Hamby was standing at the door and pointed a gun at him," Hurd said.
When pondering how to vote on the Coit Tower Proposition B on the June 5 ballot, voters may be reminded of the joke about the indecisive rabbi. Well, this voter is.
In that joke, two men with a dispute come to the rabbi for adjudication. The first man states his case. "You're right," says the rabbi. The second man makes his rebuttal. "You're right," says the rabbi. The rabbi's wife breaks in: "They can't both be right!" The rabbi ponders this. "You're right, too."
Prop. B is a one-paragraph "declaration of policy" which, if passed, would "prioritize" the funds generated by Coit Tower for the landmark's upkeep and would "strictly limit commercial activities and private events" at the site. Opponents of the measure -- both San Francisco papers and Recreation and Parks Department boss Phil Ginsburg, namely -- have characterized this as NIMBY ballot-box politics which could deprive other city facilities from Rec and Park funds.
Proponents, meanwhile, accuse the city and Rec and Park of allowing Coit Tower to rot while using it as the city's champagne room to generate funds for the city or its favored nonprofits.
Well, you're right! You're right, too!
The kids over at Sun Valley School in San Rafael are lamenting the fact that the Crayola markers they use to draw, write, and color, are pretty ... pretty polluting.
And because the students are sick of seeing so much wasted plastic, they started a petition on Change.org asking the company to give consumers a convenient way to recycle the millions of Crayola markers manufactured every year. As the kids astutely note, currently there's no method to recycle the nearly half a billion markers made every year, which is they they are explicitly asking Crayola to create a "take-back" program, giving consumers a safe way to recycle markers.
Here's what the students had to say to Crayola executives:
We are looking for your leadership to empower kids to be "green." Willyou take the lead and show the world that you care about keeping plastics out of landfills, incinerators and oceans? When plastics are sent to landfill, or burned for electricity, or washed into oceans, they pollute Earth.
The Examiner brings us this not-so-pleasurable story this morning about a disturbing uptick in public masturbation -- and we're not referring to your Muni ride last night.
Just last week in Half Moon Bay, sheriff's deputies were called to a
report of a man who allegedly had been pleasuring himself while peering
into a bedroom window of home on Amesport Landing at about 5:30 a.m. According to the Ex, the homeowner chased after the masturbating man, but lost sight of him. San Mateo County deputies later spotted the suspect and arrested him after another
chase.
Gilberto Flores, 33, was booked on charges of indecent exposure, peeping, and resisting arrest, deputies said.
But wait, there's more!
