Man Creates Bloody Mess on Potrero Hill 

On Thursday, December 18, at around 2 p.m., a woman parked her sports utility vehicle on Connecticut Street, just south of 17th Street, to take laundry out of the trunk. Her baby daughter was in the back seat. According to her stepson, a man abruptly entered the driver’s side of the SUV, smearing blood on a window in the process. The woman was able to scare the intruder off; she and her daughter were physically unharmed.

The man also penetrated a silver sedan parked on Connecticut Street just north of 17th Street. Blood was spattered on the sedan door; the trunk was open with papers strewn over the back. On the ground nearby was a coat, broken pottery, and more blood. On the car’s back seat there appeared to be a name and some words written in blood.

Four San Francisco Police Department squad cars along with a San Francisco Fire Department ambulance scrambled to the scene, watched by a small crowd of Potrero Hill residents and Connecticut Yankee patrons. Police officers apprehended the suspect, put him in handcuffs and sat him on the curb. An SFFD medic evaluated his physical health. Witnesses from nearby businesses as well as the stepson of the SUV driver shared details with constabularies. The suspect was ultimately taken away in the back of a squad car. 

The incident coincidentally unfolded while two SFFD fire engines were parked a block north, at the corner of Connecticut and 16th streets, where firefighters were investigating a report of a fire on the fifth floor of the Potrero 1010 Apartments. Aerial ladders had extended to the complex’s rooftop.  

^{Photo, top: Police and paramedics attend to the suspect, whose hands can be seen behind the light post. Photo: Thomas Hunter II}