Overview
- The Department of Public Health said Saturday that the social worker died from injuries suffered in Thursday's attack at Zuckerberg San Francisco General’s Ward 86, and authorities have not released the victim’s name.
- Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero-Arriechi, who is booked without bail on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, mayhem, and being armed during a felony, with SFPD’s Strategic Investigative Unit leading the probe.
- Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said a deputy intervened after the assault began around 1:30 p.m., deputies recovered a five-inch kitchen knife, and the victim had been stabbed in the neck and shoulder.
- Clinic staff had repeatedly warned supervisors in recent weeks about threats from the patient, who reportedly sought a specific doctor at another city clinic earlier that day, and hospital leaders now plan to consolidate entrances and use metal-detection wands with added deputy presence.
- An eyewitness account published by Mission Local disputes the Sheriff’s Office description of the deputy’s immediate response, Ward 86 is closed indefinitely, and a separate inmate stabbing at the county jail that day is under investigation.