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detainers. he was held by us until april 15 confirming with the feds that there were no outstanding warrants or judicial orders to return him. there were none. there was a request from ice that he be turned over for deportation deportation, but as we said the city doesn t comply with those requests. if they had, sanchez in all likelihood would have been in mexico, not on a pier with a gun wednesday evening. today stanley s parents had this reaction to the news from ice. we don t need that in our hearts and souls. we re just we re here for kate and it s i think i can speak for my wife and brad that it s a non-issue. it would have been so much better, of course if he were gone and they would have done what they should have done absolutely, without a guess, definitely. reporter: from time to time we have been seeing people walking on pier 14 to bring flowers and lay them at the spot where kate stanley was shot. none of them have said that they thought the city ....
and basically demanded property and cash from within the apartment complex. reporter: family members say they didn t know the suspects but police say the robbers were im impatient and one of the suspects began ransacking the apartment. while one of the suspects held the 10-year-old girl in his arms with a gun to her head he made statements to the family and also to the girl you know basically threatening her safety. reporter: police say the two men fled into a vehicle, where two other men were waiting and fled. leaving behind a shaken family and angry neighbors. for somebody to put a child into that position, that s really heartless. reporter: police are still not releasing many details publicly because of the ongoing investigation here. but say the four men appear to be latinos in their 20s who fled in a small, dark four-door sedan. we ve also been told as you heard, that the girl is physically okay and right now is still trying to recover from the ordeal. li ....
intentional or accidental? attorneys from neither side would elaborate on the evidence. one of kate s family members was inside the courtroom and got very emotional at times. he doesn t want to talk to reporters right now. today is about kate. it s about this incredible family that has shown such strength in this incredibly difficult time. the judge set bail at $5 million for lopez sanchez. the next court date, july 22nd. joe vazquez, kpix 5. we have confirmed through our sources investigators traced the serial number on the gun back to a federal agent. published report says the gun was stolen in a car burglary last week. it s led to a lot of finger pointing on who screwed up and let an undocumented felon go free. he says federal immigration officials dropped the ball. this afternoon i talked to 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 the city and county really had no choice. in fact here ....
live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. as the suspect in the pier murder faces a judge tonight, bomb shell new information about who owned the gun used to kill this young bay area woman. good evening, i m elizabeth cook. i m allen martin. ken bastida has the night off. andria borba is outside the jail with new information fortous night. andria? reporter: ever since kate steinle was murdered a week ago, we learned a lot of information about illegal immigration and the sanctuary policy in san francisco. it looks like the chain of events leading to her death includes the city s most common street crime. there are a lot of questions being raised by our investigation. where did the gun come from? reporter: tonight, we know. sources confirmed that the gun used to kill kate steinle on pier 14 belonged to a federal agent. 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 ....
the gun wrapped in a shirt in the t-shirt 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, sanchez s 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 isn t 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, here s what he had to say. well, i think i.c.e. n ....