Social employee stabbed in assault at San Francisco Basic Hospital dies

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

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

The sufferer has not been recognized.

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

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

The union representing the sufferer has been, “sounding the alarm about essential questions of safety at San Francisco Basic Hospital for years,” mentioned College Skilled and Technical Workers President Dan Russell in a press release.

“Employees have been assaulted, traumatized, and compelled to take care of unsafe working circumstances for a lot too lengthy,” he mentioned.

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

Tortolero Arriechi, 34, was on the hospital for a scheduled appointment and had reportedly made threats beforehand to a health care provider, in accordance with the San Francisco Sheriff‘s Workplace. He had been recognized to hospital workers 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 mentioned Saturday will probably be updating the costs within the case.