Interview: Suspect in SF pier attack admits he shot woman
Published 2:00 pm Monday, July 6, 2015
- This undated photo released by the San Francisco Police Department shows Francisco Sanchez. A young woman was shot to death, apparently at random, while walking with her father and a friend along a popular pedestrian pier on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, at Pier 14 in San Francisco and died at a hospital. Police arrested Sanchez about an hour after the shooting. (San Francisco Police Department via AP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man arrested in the seemingly random shooting of a woman at a San Francisco pier has admitted in a jailhouse interview that he shot her, but says it was an accident.
Francisco Sanchez told KGO-TV on Sunday that he was responsible for 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle’s death, but insisted that the shooting was accidental.
Speaking in a mix of Spanish and English, he said he found a gun wrapped inside a shirt and when he picked it up, he heard three shots go off.
Steinle was gunned down while out for an evening stroll along the waterfront with her father and a family friend on Wednesday.
Police said witnesses heard no argument or dispute before the shooting, suggesting it was a random attack.
