Patient stabs social worker to death inside California hospital
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
A 31-year-old social worker was fatally stabbed at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital last week in an attack that officials have described as “predictable and preventable.”
The incident occurred on Dec. 4 at approximately 1:30 p.m. in Ward 86, according to a news release from the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Office. Hospital staff had requested security for a doctor who had previously received threats from a patient.
“While providing security for the doctor, our deputy heard a disturbance in the hallway involving the suspect, who was attacking a social worker,” SFCSO investigators said. “The deputy intervened immediately, restraining the suspect and securing the scene.”
The victim, identified only as a social worker at the University of California, San Francisco, suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck and shoulders. Hospital staff performed lifesaving measures, including CPR, before rushing the 31-year-old to an operating room in critical condition.
The suspect, 34-year-old San Francisco resident Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi, was subdued and taken into custody. A five-inch kitchen knife, believed to have been used in the attack, was recovered at the scene.
Arriechi was booked at the San Francisco County Jail on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, mayhem, and being armed during the commission of a felony.
On Saturday, the San Francisco Police Department confirmed that the victim had died, according to KRON.
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