A California man stabbed, ran over and assaulted a number of pedestrians and firefighters in San Francisco in a sequence of violent assaults that stretched over three hours, authorities allege.
Anthony Carl Sheldone, 42, from Brownsville, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of finishing up the unprovoked assaults, which started shortly after 7 a.m. on Sept. 1, the San Francisco district lawyer’s workplace introduced in a information launch Monday.
Sheldone first tried to assault a number of individuals whereas driving his automotive on Haight Road, in line with prosecutors. He allegedly ran over an individual at a crosswalk who was strolling a canine, then drove into oncoming visitors and bodily assaulted somebody ready at a bus cease.
He then allegedly ran over two individuals crossing on the intersection of Stanyan and Fulton streets, prosecutors mentioned. Sheldone then requested a girl to take off her garments, and when the lady’s husband confronted him, Sheldone stabbed the person, prosecutors alleged.
He then attacked two San Francisco first responders.
Greater than an hour after he began his rampage, Sheldone ran over a 70-year-old pedestrian crossing the road at Van Ness Avenue and Golden Gate Avenue, prosecutors allege. He was ultimately taken into police custody after he climbed a 35-foot-tall tree and jumped again to the road, in line with court docket data.
Sheldone was charged with eight counts of tried homicide, seven counts of assault with a lethal weapon, one rely of assault with power more likely to trigger nice bodily damage, one rely of prison threats, one rely of tried assault with a lethal weapon, two counts of battery with damage to emergency personnel, two counts of assault upon a peace officer, one rely of evading in opposition to visitors and one rely of evading an officer with willful disregard, in line with the district lawyer’s workplace.
The case in opposition to Sheldone stays lively. Anybody with info is inspired to name the San Francisco Police Division at 415-575-4444 or textual content a tip to TIP411 and start the message with SFPD.