Overview
- Authorities say a 31-year-old UCSF social worker was stabbed multiple times in Ward 86 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General and remains in critical condition after emergency surgery.
- Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero-Arriechi, who was arrested at the scene after a sheriff’s deputy intervened; a five-inch kitchen knife was recovered, and he is being held without bail on suspicion of attempted murder and related charges.
- Clinic staff had warned supervisors for weeks that the patient was threatening, security reportedly had his photo, and a deputy was dispatched Thursday to provide safety support for a doctor the suspect was seeking.
- Hospital and DPH leaders told staff they will make material changes, including consolidating entry to a single courtyard entrance and beginning security wanding, as the facility continues to operate without fixed metal detectors and with fewer sheriff’s deputies than in 2022, according to the deputies’ union.
- In a separate incident at the county jail on Seventh Street, an inmate was stabbed during a one-on-one fight, suffered abdominal and hand injuries, was hospitalized, and the suspected assailant remains in custody as investigators review the case.