San Francisco Police Department is asking the Castro community for help in finding a suspect wanted in connection with a violent assault that took place June 8th on Hancock Street near Sanchez Street.
According to the SFPD crime alert and the Bay Area Reporter who broke the story the victim engaged with the suspect about setting up camp in front of a residence for the night sometime between 12:45-1:15 AM. When the suspect was asked to move from his location he became violent and attacked the man, knocking him to the ground and causing what SFPD described as "serious head trauma".
The victim was transported to SF General Hospital on Potrero, treated in ICU for some time, and is now home recovering. He worked as soon as he was able with a SFPD sketch artist to re-create this detailed likeness of his attacker.
Police want to speak to the man pictured above who they listed as an adult, white male, estimated 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs in around 200 pounds. He has a heavy build, curly brown hair and was last seen wearing a dark jacket, dark pants, and a baseball hat.
If you see him around the neighborhood it's best advised to not confront him in any way, He is a big boy, call the police immediately and let them do their job. Multiple options are at your disposal for alerting authorities: call Sgt. Waaland, officer in charge of investigation directly at the Mission Station, (415) 558-5485. Or you can phone info anonymously at (415) 575-4444 or even text it to TIP411 with 'SFPD' typed into the subject line.
The only way the Castro will become safer is if its citizens work together to keep an eye out for each other and remain alert and ready to help out in any way possible.
