Police arrest suspect in SF fatal hit-and-run fight
UPDATE: 3/28/2018 4:17 p.m. San Francisco police say they have arrested a suspect accused of running down five men then fleeing the scene of the crash after he and the men earlier got into an altercation.
Officer Robert Rueca says a man was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the crash that occurred around 10:25 a.m. He says police also have custody of the vehicle involved but declined to release the suspect’s name or details of the arrest.
Police say the driver got into an altercation with the men, then got into his vehicle and hit them before fleeing the scene in an industrial neighborhood a few miles from the city’s financial district. One of the men died at a hospital a short time later, while three were in serious condition and a fourth was in fair condition.
PREVIOUS STORY: 3/28/2018 12:30 p.m. A spokesman for San Francisco General Hospital says one of five people struck in a hit-and-run crash has died.
San Francisco police say a driver got into an altercation Wednesday with the five people and struck them with his vehicle before fleeing. It was not clear if the victims were pedestrians.
Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said three of the victims were in serious condition and the fourth was in fair condition. He said he could not discuss the nature of their injuries.
The crash occurred in an industrial neighborhood along the waterfront a few miles from the city’s financial district.
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A driver got into an altercation with five people and struck them with his vehicle before fleeing Wednesday, San Francisco police said.
Police spokeswoman Giselle Linnane said four victims had life-threatening injuries. All five people were taken to a hospital.
Police did not have any additional information.
Paul Lim, who works at nearby mechanical contractor Anderson Rowe & Buckley, told the San Francisco Chronicle a distraught bystander ran into the business asking for items to help stop the victims’ bleeding.
Lim said one person was being consoled by a friend screaming for help, and another one was moving very slowly.
