Well Known Corner Store Owner In Lower Pac Heights Loses Eye In Stabbing
The longtime owner of a corner store on Franklin Street in San Francisco was brutally stabbed multiple times last week in an incident of random violence that followed his storefront being smashed by a car.
It s another in a seemingly endless series of disheartening and tragic stories coming out of the city in recent months, often impacting elder residents with violent assaults. 72-year-old Petros Peter Yohannes, the owner of Franklin Market at Franklin and Austin streets (between Bush and Pine), was attacked last Wednesday morning while he was at the store assessing damages from an attempted burglary the night before, in which an SUV tried to smash through the front window. As ABC 7 reports, a male suspect ran into the store asking to use the bathroom, assaulted Yohannes, and then got into a scuffle in which a weapon was pulled and Yohannes was stabbed multiple times, including in his left eye.