Social worker stabbed in attack at San Francisco General Hospital dies

A social employee died Saturday from wounds sustained in a knife assault at Zuckerberg San Francisco Common Hospital and Trauma Middle earlier within the week, elevating considerations over security on the hospital.

Investigators consider Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi stabbed the 31-year-old social employee a number of occasions within the neck and shoulder round 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tortolero Arriechi was allegedly in search of one of many docs who labored on the clinic.

The sufferer has not been recognized.

Shortly earlier than the assault, hospital employees requested for extra safety for a physician who had acquired threats from a affected person at Ward 86, the HIV clinic.

The sheriff’s deputy who was there to offer safety heard the assault and intervened, however not in time to stop the lethal wounds. A five-inch kitchen knife was recovered from the scene.

The union representing the sufferer has been, “sounding the alarm about vital issues of safety at San Francisco Common Hospital for years,” stated College Skilled and Technical Staff President Dan Russell in an announcement.

“Employees have been assaulted, traumatized, and compelled to take care of unsafe working situations for much too lengthy,” he stated.

He stated union members “are devastated to be taught of the dying of a outstanding, compassionate, and devoted social employee, who was beloved by their household, associates, colleagues, and fellow union members.”

Tortolero Arriechi, 34, was on the hospital for a scheduled appointment and had reportedly made threats beforehand to a physician, in line with the San Francisco Sheriff‘s Workplace. He had been identified to hospital employees and a daily affected person at Ward 86, Mission Native reported.

Tortolero Arriechi was arrested shortly after the assault and booked into San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of tried homicide, assault with a lethal weapon, mayhem and being armed in the course of the fee of a felony .

The San Francisco murder element is main the investigation and stated Saturday it is going to be updating the fees within the case.