The gun wrapped in a shirt in the tshirt and went off in his hands. He pled not guilty. His lawyer says it was an accident. We can confirm that mr. Sanchez did not know kate steinle and he had no reason to want her to be harmed in any way. Reporter now, sanchezs story has changed along the way. Originally he said he was using a gun to shoot sea lions. This will reignite the debate over whether or not San Francisco should be a sanctuary. The murder of kate steinle has provoked a dispute about who is at fault for letting an illegal immigrant felon go fruit. Chef Ross Mirkarimi said it isnt his fault. He says federal immigration officials messed up by not obtaining a warrant to keep sanchez in custody. Our allen martin talked yesterday with a former head of i. C. E. About that. Sheriff mirkarimi clearly laid the blame right at the door of i. C. E. He said that the city and the county really had no choice. In fact, heres what he had to say. Well, i think i. C. E. Needs to take an account t
Francisco lopez sanchez. He appeared before the court to officially answer to the charge. How do you plead . No guilty. Reporter he is accused of firing a gun on pier 15. A bullet hit kate stinley as she walked with her father on the pier killing her. Despite the evidence, this is not a simple case. Immigration brought him here without prompting to face a drug charge. There was a case from december of 1995 it involved the sale of 20 of marijuana. Reporter the 20yearold case involving the 20 of marijuana was dropped its the reason sanchez was brought to San Francisco and the opportunity for him to have been on pier 14 last wednesday. When he goes on trial, San Francisco sanctuary city policy will likely be an unnamed defendant. The d. A. Spokesperson pointed out today was not about sanchez or the citys sanctuary city policy but about the victim, kate stinley and getting some measure of justice for her family. Sanchez is being held in jail without bail and is due back in court friday. We
Him, who played with him. When i started here in 1979 i got to cover him. And just a couple things that stand out, one of the things i saw, the raiders had this kicker and he missed a 13, 14 yard field goal which would have won the game for the raiders and after the game everybody was in the locker room surrounding this poor guy. 55 and they crammed microphones in his faces, and kenny stabler, i will never forget this, came by and said leave him alone. If i hadnt had a lousy game he wouldnt have had to make that kick in the first place. I will answer all your questions. He did. Totally took the pressure off this rookie kicker. It was one of those things that typified the guy he was. And he was soft spoken. A tough guy but if you met him he always spoke softly and he would remember your name. One autograph event, he was signing one autograph after another and every fan felt the need say i was at this game and he acted like he had never heard that story again. Looked them in the eye. Lis
Take. We took a detour just to get away from the traffic and hopefully the traffic wont be so bad in a few minutes when we try to make our way out there. We cant be on it. Were taking pictures of it. Reporter traffic is being directed here in the marina but also at 19th and geary just north of the golden gate park. Officials say that construction is on schedule and so far to good. So, you can expect the doyle drive to reopen by 5 00 a. M. On monday. Reporting live here in san francisco. Abc7 news. It will be great moment. Thank you. You can downtowns load the abc7 news app to deal with the detours. Its available for your smartphone or tablet and you can enable push alerts to get an update as soon as doyle drive reopens. The app is free from your app store or get more details at abc7 news. Com app. Two Santa Rosa Junior College students are accused of trying to kill a prostitute. Surveillance video shows one of the suspects near a motel 6 in rohnert park where a woman was shot. Cornell
Good evening, everyone. Traffic on the bay bridge toll plaza backed up at this hour as you can see in some of the lanes it has been pretty bad all day. The doyle drive closure causing traffic headache tuesday for drivers in and out of San Francisco. Commuters of course have been warned to steer clear of the Golden Gate Bridge corridor. Caltrans has 79 hours to finish work on the approach. And live near presidio parkway in San Francisco with a look at the progress. Janice . Reporter after tonight one more full day of construction. Crews say so far so good. It looks like they have paved most of the lanes. Theyre making good progress. They say theyre right on schedule to reopen doyle drive by early monday morning. Construction on doyle drive is well under way. It is the second day it has been closed and crews are hard at work. Pouring cement paving the roadways, and installing medians. The work is being done to create a safer wider connection known as presidio parkway. Some are calling it